The meaning of hot 23rd - 27th March 2009 Ben Tre & Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Plans formed, plans broken, new plans made, new plans broken, more new plans… ahhhh! My head hurts! We were never definite deciding where our next destination following Dalat would be. We had considered Mui Ne, Saigon, Can Tho, Phu Quoc Island, and Rach Gia to name but a few possibilities however we could never quite strike the balance required between potential fun, cost and desire to visit that we’d been searching for. All places have their virtues and flaws alike, but ultimately we decided upon Ben Tre for no particular reason other than it’s in the Mekong Delta, only three hours from Saigon by local bus and supposedly not visited that often. A few places would match that description,
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