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Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta February 13th 2005

day one of the boat tour. we stopped along a village, ate lunch and took a short bike trip. ofcourse i'm a sucker for vietnamese children..actually any children. this one wanted some bottled water so i poured some in his mouth and eventually cooled him off with an overload. they all giggled and ran away! (thank you to my friend carl with the digital camera, who just emailed to me. namaste.)... read more

3 day boat trip on the Mekong Delta

Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta February 12th 2005

scenes to come on the mekong delta

twee

i embark on a 3 day/2 night boat trip throughout the mekong delta with another yoga teacher friend of mine coming from bali, carl from the bay area. might not be on emails for a few days. here's a cool site with some great pictures someone else shared online: http://www.farofflands.com/avpa/0mekong.html peace out....... read more

The Edible Island

Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta » Kien Giang » Phu Quoc Island January 28th 2005

Caroline and Ken

Welcome back to Phu Quoc Island. We have been here for some time now and have had some fun and some not so fun. I will talk about the fun since we can always regail people with not so fun stories if they desire. I am now officially an open water scuba diver after 4 dives aboard the SS. Rainbow Divers boat. Got to see all kinds of neat critters under the water like blue speckled moray eels and nudibranches. Caroline got to join me on my last dive and since my instructor and I felt she was missing out from all my skill testing and lessons we decided we would leave the 50 m surface swim with compass skill until the end so she could enjoy it as well. Well when we popped up around ... read more

Beach Time

Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta » Kien Giang » Phu Quoc Island January 24th 2005

Caroline and Ken

Hey, me again. Got some really fast internet here on Phu Quoc - surprising since it is a small island, maybe less computers to compete with bandwith. Got to Phu Quoc yesterday. Staying at a fancy resort (Saigon Phu-Quoc), which is quite nice but we could have gotten way cheaper. Oh well, we can't be bothered with the touts anymore choosing a place. It is so different than Mexico because it is so quiet, there are usually only 5-6 people around the pool at a time. The beach is nice, the water is ok, not like Phuket which is crystal clear, but it is okay (hope I don't sound spoiled...) Ken and I are trying to find the positives to this country in general. Maybe we have just run into the wrong circumstances but we find ... read more

The Mekong Delta, floating filling stations, and thieving monkeys.

Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta January 4th 2005

Trip down the Mekong

Gerry and Denise

On 20th December we left Phnom Penh in Cambodia and travelled by boat down the mighty Mekong to cross the border into Vietnam. We decided to book a 3 day tour into the Mekong Delta in South Vietnam. The border crossing was a gentle, orderly and attractive introduction to Vietnam, contrary to most overland border crossings which usually stress and confuse. Our first meal was noodles and vegetables in a hut next to the Immigration Office with some overly-excitable children trying to flog us packets of crisps. There was an amazing array of herbs thrown in with the veg. The Mekong Delta is where the river fans out, eventually to meet the sea having travelled like a modern-day tourist through Tibet, China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It gives life to so many people and is ... read more

Mekong - Muine

Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta January 2nd 2005

Storm does the Mekong

Kate vP

From HCM we went on a two day one night trip around the Mekong. Massive river, pretty dirty crazy way of life. Saw coconut sweet, rice paper and rice noodle factories. Stayed in a very budget hotel some of our group freaked out but the feral in me felt right at home. Whole two day trip only US$15, and we had an English speaking guide called Tony (Te-wan), he was great, definitely a highlight of the trip so far!! We then swapped the Mekong for a kind of resort on the coast called Muine - surreal landscape, heaps of red sand like the Oz desert and then massive white sand dunes. Very hot, got pretty bad sunburn - I thought my Kiwi skin could handle it - we've got less ozone than them, but seems I ... read more

Brief history of Vietnam

The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc...more history

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