Sam Mountain

Trip Start Sep 01, 2005
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Trip End Dec 04, 2006


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Monday, October 16, 2006

So relieved the activities today were actually interesting including a visit to the floating market, rice paper factory and a rice processing factory where bags of rice weighed 100 KG and it took two people to lift it onto someone else's back to transport it.

Cheapest meal in Vietnam was in Can Tho having searched out the Com Chay (vegetarian) restaurant. They had imitation pork, bo kho (beef stew) and canh chua (tamarind soup) and it all tasted so good. Washing it down with a glass of ice coffee we all walked happily away for less than 60 cents each!

Sam Mountain had a Buddhist temple and provided sweeping views of the rice paddy fields and of Cambodia with the sun setting behind it. The sunset was beautiful with all sorts of colours changing constantly. We stayed up there maybe a little too long because Steve and I ended up taking a detour down and had to back track to find the path again. We probably wasted 20 minutes but eventually got to the entrance where there was no bus, no tour group or guide waiting, abandoned! The first thing we did was open up a bottle of coke and quench our thirsts and we weren't even finished with the bottle when the group came sneaking around the side (they had went down a different path) and the bus was moved further up the road. We were never abandoned after all.
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