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Published: November 18th 2008
Chau Doc
Setting off from Tinh Bien, the land border crossing between Cambodia & Vietnam we are driven for an hour by bus to the town of Chau Doc on the banks of the Mekong river. The drive is through many fishing villages, some with Chinese nets as in Kochin in Kerala. The landscape is beautifully green interspersed with palm trees, rice fields, lotus covered water pools/ponds, eucalyptus trees ...
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david phillips
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Ho Chi Minh
Just been reading your blog as we were in Vietnam earlier this year and notice you say that Ho Chi Minh was born in Hue. He wasn't. He was born in 1890 in Hoàng Trù Village, his mother's hometown. From 1895, he grew up in his paternal hometown of Kim Liên Village, NghÇ An Province. I believe he moved south to Hue when he was 10 as his father worked for the French.