Blogs from Can Tho, Mekong River Delta, Vietnam, Asia - page 13

Christmas in Can Tho Christmas Eve found us leaving Cambodia and heading back into Vietnam. It was a return to the noble Mekong, which calmly carried us down towards the famous delta that so richly supplies Vietnam with its rice, fruit and vegetables. It was a peaceful journey, passing similar villages to those on the Tonle Sap. We swapped boats at the border, jumping aboard a vessel slung with hammocks. We kicked back and watched it all slip by. Pressing on by bus to Can Tho, another provincial capital, we were struck by Christmas celebrations as we arrived. Santas hooning about on motorbikes, giant sacks behind them; children everywhere in Santa suits, or wearing special red and white clothes, or simply dressed up in their best clothes. Everyone was out for the night - motorbikes ... read more

We woke up at 6am to be packed and ready for our motorbike taxis to take us to our ferry to Rach Gia. The road from our resort into town was extra beautiful in the early morning sun shine. It was kind of sad riding out of the town for the last time. It's a really tough decision to make, to leave paradise for the sake of a new unknown adventure... Phu Quoc is paradise! The little island was surprisingly busy place at 6am! There were people all along the road going about their business, getting ready for the day. We were dropped off at the bus stop where we plonked our bags off onto two empty seats, and, with about 10min to go before departure time we decided to go and find some breakfast. We ... read more

24-29 July Headed out from Phnom Penh by bus to Kampot, in SE Cambodia, to see the Elephant Mountains and experience a much slower pace of Cambodian life in the sleepy riverside town. There's not too much going on in Kampot, but we headed out to "town" nonetheless to see for ourselves. After a couple futile attempts to find much of anything happening, we ended up reading up on further travel options and organised an early morning start to Bokor National Park and an abandoned French hill station atop the mountain. While the drive up the mountain was a windy 30 KM, we finally understood the inside joke amongst Cambodians about the Cambodian Back Massage -- the black and blue all over result of sitting in the back of a pickup while going over Cambodian roads. ... read more

hey guys! wow didi ever have to get up early this morning. patrice and i are in this little town(little by vietnamese standrads means pretty big) and we came here so we could go for a boat tour down the mekong river to see the floating markets. but the markets start nice and early in the morning, so the alarm rang at 5:30 this morning; therefore im tired. haha and to topi t all off, after about 20 mins in our boat, it starts pouring rain! luckily our lovely boat driver (who couldnt speak ANY english) put up this littel roof thing over us and gave us a tarp. we managed to stay mostly dry. after the rain stopped though, it turned out to be a pretty sunny day, and it was cool seeing all the ... read more

June 17, 2007 Sunday Can Tho 7:10am last night david’s class phone calls omg we all had one hell of a night last night. Most of us went to a discotech with Duong and Young. It was amazing. They use actual lasers. It was like we were in Usher’s video. Our Vietnamese teacher from Siagon came down with her friend, Mandy, on a bus. They brought alcohol so we pre-gamed in their room. Patrick was so drunk. He and Mandy were drinking beer like it was water at dinner. We headed our for the discotec at about 10:30pm. Lee Anne let me wear one of her hulters. For one on this trip I looked cute. When we got to the discotec, I seriously felt like a moviestar. The bounces had suit on with mouth pieces. The ... read more