Mekong Delta trip - Great experience

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Here is the Mekong Delta blog. It was a great three day tour with Delta Adventure travel starting from Saigon early on the Thursday and arriving in Phnom Penh in Cambodia on Saturday night.

We started off with a four hour fast boat trip from Saigon to Cai Be seeing the local river life including all the houses, boats and Saigon docks. In Cai Be we saw the floating market and visited some local sweet making villages! We arrived at the homestay at around 5.00pm and after getting settled had a cooking class. The family were really nice and made us all feel welcome. It was a definite highlight of Vietnam. I got up in the morning at 5.30am and watched the sun come up over the Mekong and saw all the locals leaving their houses on their little boats to go to work. We got picked up at 7.30 so we could go back to Cai Be and get the bus to Vinh Long ( with a few more floating markets on the way!!).

The boat trip from Vinh Long to Chau Doc was an overnighter, the sunset was amazing here and we sat out on the deck having a few beers while we trudged along the Mekong. Went to bed around 10.00pm and watched a few episodes of Prison Break ( season 2 now). Didn't get much sleep as the engine was really loud and I'm sure we crashed into another boat at some point in the night! We managed to fit in another floating market in the morning just before we transfered to a smaller boat to see some minority villages and get to the border crossing point.

Crossing the border took around 1 1/2 hours, mainly hanging around for the Cambodian visa's to be issued and then it was back on the boat and we were in Cambodia at last!!

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Photos

Mekong river Vietnam Cai Be
Local fisherman casting net

Ships
These funny shaped ships were all over the place

Cooking class
It took me a while to get used to making spring rolls!!

About to catch the boat
35kg !!

Comments

[Frog princess]

Are you eating properly?
That Thai grub is healthy stuff. Are you eating properly darling? You are looking very svelte!

[Eve Mean]

such fun.....will you ever come back?
Hi Rob, our holiday is comming to an end and I feel a little guilty that my room is more comfortable than yours but you look as if you are having so much fun and meeting new people and new experiences that I think you would prefer your comfort even the net over the bed!! Enjoy the rest of the trip and stay safe. lots of love Mum xx

[Jude]

Hello
Glad to see you are looking after Alfie! The spring rolls look good. We'll have to swap recipes when you get back. I went to karaoke on Friday night and yes I did sing Call Me! Bon voyage for your flight to Oz. What are you most looking forward to when you get there? J/x