Mekong Delta

Another busy day on the Mekong River

April 15th 2008
Before we begin, grab yourself a FLASK of tea; it's a long one! Our passage across the watery border into Vietnam went surprisingly smoothly. We continued to follow the Mekong River for several hours to a place called Chau Doc where we spent our first night in Vietnam before making our way further south to Can Tho. It was here we would encounter our first episode of that struggle (we'd hoped to ... read more

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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... ... read more

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As we closed the door to the ambulance station, our shift came to a somewhat anticlimactic end. No big send off, no tearful farewells, in fact, no bugger all. But that was how we’d wanted it, choosing not to have a leaving party because, lets face it, we weren’t really leaving. However, this would be the last time we would see our place of work for a whole year. Now, I’m acutely aware of just how many people would love to be in this position, but just closing the door to an empty station, which like most places of work had become our second home, wasn’t how we’d pictured it. With nob... full info

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