Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
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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