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The Ecstacy of a Wonderful Meal: Can Tho and the Victoria Can Tho resort
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 27 May 2012
It is my last day in the Mekong delta, and I’m nearing the end of my journey in beautiful Vietnam. For the past 2 months, I’ve had an on and off relationship with local eateries. At first, I was simply daunted by the idea of stepping into an eatery furnished with low plastic stools or [...]
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Down in the Mekong Delta
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 14 May 2012
Of all the places I planned on visiting in Vietnam, I was especially intrigued by the Mekong delta area. To my mind, the Mekong delta conjured up images of floating markets and undulating boats against a backdrop of exotic foliage…completely clichéd, I know, but sustained by years of the occasional photo, and the occasional article [...]
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Southeast Asia With Kids – Where To Go
Blog: My Little Nomads - 1 October 2011
Southeast Asia is an incredible destination for kids and families. I’ve been all over the region and have a good feel for the places to go and the over-rated destinations to avoid. There’s lots to see so let’s take a … Continue reading →Read the entire article here: Southeast Asia With Kids – Where To Go
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Chapter 14
Blog: Emerald Dreams Photography - 21 September 2011
My last full day in Vietnam. I woke up numerous times from the aches and pains from my arm, roosters …Continue reading »
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Chapter 13
Blog: Emerald Dreams Photography - 20 September 2011
The Countryside I woke up with some pain in my wrist for obvious reasons. When we unloaded the bus, I …Continue reading »
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A Tale of Two Tours: Part II, Khmer Village
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 1 March 2011
Duc had a prison-style dragon tattoo and a speech impediment, and he gave me the best goddamn tour I went on in Vietnam. I kept seeing him around town. My first morning, groggy-eyed drinking coffee at a corner cafe, I saw him sitting at a neighboring table. He was selling his tour services to another [...]
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A Tale of Two Tours: Part 1, Ba Chuc
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 28 February 2011
We were racing the sun. It was begining to glow orange, cut into pieces by the great green palm leaves. The Mekong Delta—the landscape of every Vietnam War movie I’d ever seen, where boat engines sounded like the echoes of helicopter blades. We were trying to get to Ba Chuc before the sun went down. [...]
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Saturday Night Fevered
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 27 February 2011
Long stalks of flowers and twisted plumes of incense burning. Nodding, bowing, chanting with their eyes closed. Trays of food—peeled fruit, shrink-wrapped cookie packages, an entire plucked chicken—held atop people’s heads as they murmur. Candles and coconuts, red glowing altars (to what, to what?).
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A Feast On The Table
Blog: Ottsworld - 24 November 2010
It’s Thanksgiving and that means Americans all over the world are giving thanks and stuffing their faces with turkey. Every time Thanksgiving rolls around, I fondly reminisce about the time I was in Sydney Australia for Thanksgiving and was treated to an amazing turkey and stuffing feast. Plus the strange and inexplicable dinner entertainment of [...]
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Dinner or Science Experiment?
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 13 November 2010
It turns out that those ubiquitous Vietnamese BBQ places might be harboring a couple of major scientific finds. While checking out the local restaurants, researchers in the Mekong delta discovered that a few of the barbecued snacks were in fact an unknown species of all-female, self-cloning lizard. What sounds like a bizarre science fiction story [...]
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What to expect in a Vietnamese Restaurant
Blog: Ottsworld - 16 June 2010
Going out to eat at a restaurant is easy, right? …not always. Often when you find yourself in other countries, even though there’s a waiter, a table, you are putting food in your mouth, and there’s a bill – there are many things that can be vastly different. As I lived in Vietnam there [...]
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Cruising the backwaters in Ben Tre
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 1 June 2010
I knew little about the various provinces throughout the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, but any student of American history will have heard about Ben Tre province at one point during their education. This was the province that an American major referred … Continue reading →Cruising the backwaters in Ben Tre is a post from: Nilikuta Shani
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A floating market economy/Can Tho
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 30 May 2010
So now I’m in Vietnam… I got myself to Chau Doc, just across the border from Cambodia, and then what? I had zero set agenda besides to make my flight out of Hanoi, but that was a long time from … Continue reading →A floating market economy/Can Tho is a post from: Nilikuta Shani
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At home in Vietnam
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 28 May 2010
Vietnam. If you asked me why I wanted to come here so badly I could have given you a dozen answers. I’ve been literally obsessed with traveling through this country since I knew I’d be taking a year out to travel, and … Continue reading →At home in Vietnam is a post from: Nilikuta Shani
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Markets, Motorbikes and a love for Saigon
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 8 April 2010
After getting back from Mekong delta I decided to get out there into Saigon, I ran into my friends again, who had just arrived back from the South – Mekong delta. It’s always strange to see how often you run into the same people again and again – it happens all the time when you are [...]
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Rice wine, floating markets and a long ride back to Saigon
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 7 April 2010
When we arrived at the homestay (myself, 4 guys from the Czech Republic and a lovely older French Couple) I was a little disappointed. I wanted to stay in a home stay. Not a homestay/hotel in a village. It was after dark before we arrived so we didn’t really see much of the village until the [...]
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Xin chào Mekong Delta
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 6 April 2010
South of Saigon is a region of Vietnam called the Mekong Delta, or the Rice bowl (of the world). An enormous percentage of the worlds rice is produced in this region and because of this it is a very important economic area for Vietnam. I’m usually not a fan of tours, they don’t give you enough time [...]
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A day trip to Mekong Delta
Blog: nateniale { reflections on my travels and everything else I love } - 3 February 2010
Muddy paddy fields, rows of trees along rivers and canals, fruit sellers in sampans, houses and country life on villages by the river, fishermen trying their luck on the river, rows of houses on rafts or stilts with old men resting on hammock and children playing. If, like me, you had these images when you think of Mekong Delta in Vietnam, then, like me, you would be wrong. Or maybe, it was just the trip I took.
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Floating the Mekong to Cambodia
Blog: The Heather Report - 10 January 2010
One thing I’ve learned about Vietnam is that when you buy a “tour” of any kind, you never know what you’re going to get. There is definitely an itinerary....they just don't really tell you what it is. Generally, you're informed you when you’ll be picked up and where you’ll be dropped off. So when we decided to do a two day tour of the Mekong Delta ending with a boat ride into Cambodia, all for $45, we went into it with a go-with-the-flow attitude. Good thing because we ended up on 7 boats, 3 buses and one floating hotel (and were passed between 4 different tour guides)
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Fruity Vietnam
Blog: Ottsworld - 10 November 2009
I’m a fruit person…I love it, I crave it, I must have it! One great thing about living in the sweltering Vietnam climate is that the fruit is great all year around! I would walk through the markets and my eyes would pop seeing so many different kinds of colorful fruit! Vendors walked the streets [...]
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Top Sites in Vietnam
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 31 October 2009
Vietnam has some amazing sites to see. It is one of our favorite countries that we have ever visited. We spent 30 days in Vietnam and it was barely enough time to see everything that this diverse nation has to offer. From great natural wonders to fantastic shopping, mountain adventures and chilling beach life, Vietnam has something to offer for everyone.
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Mekong Delta Boat Trip
Blog: Andy's Rotten Ideas - 29 July 2009
The tour bus left at 7.30am for a 3 hours ride to My Tho town in Tien Giang Province for Mekong Delta boat trip for a close up view of local life. Tien Giang Province is the closest Mekong Delta province to Saigon and is a very popular destination for organised tours out of Saigon. Most tours throughout Tien Giang Province run in boats that seat 20-plus people and while such numbers bring costs down to a more reasonable level. During the journey, we could see many street vendors selling bread loaf on the dusty road side.
