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Floating Market In Mekong
Sellers often invite tourists to try local fruits and guests will feel their generosity, magnanimity, simplicity, easiness and straightforwardness of the delta dwellers. The Mekong Delta has hundreds of floating markets; all the booths and
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Mekong Floating Market
On the journey, the lady that was driving our boat brought along a piece of bamboo and proceeded to stip the skin off it and make a selection of flowers and birds out of it whilst driving the boat! I got the bus to Can Tho with a couple I'd
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MyTho Tour In Mekong Delta
We got on a boat (about a dozen people) and headed to the floating markets. The markets were big boats with loads of all kinds of fruit and veg. Today with our tour we had a basic breakfast again and headed down to the river (just a block
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Tet In CanTho -Mekong Delta
We wandered around and found ourselves near a Buddhist temple. A friendly monk showed us around and directed us to another bigger and more ornate temple hidden down a side street. Had no problems getting our bus to Can Tho in the end.
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Sailing to Pineapple Islet
Pineapple Islet, one of five populated islets in Hon Thom Commune, is located in the Gulf of Thailand 15-kilometers south of the Cambodian coast. The commune has 3,000 inhabitants and 13 deserted islets. Due to geography, inhabitants live on the
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Go to My Tho
Pancake flat but lusciously green and beautiful, the Mekong delta is the southernmost region of Vietnam. The land of the Mekong Delta is renowned for it's richness; almost half of the region's total land area is under cultivation. The Mekong Delta
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Mekong Delta and Jungle Mechanics
Into the Mekong we go, on a minibus that follows the usual rules of Asian bus travel: Establish maximum capacity of bus, double it, then squeeze in a dining table. Now head off. All the while everyone's mobile phones electronically chirping, and what
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Back from the delta
Hey y'all...We just got back from three days and two nights in the Mekong Delta. It was fantastic...probably too much to share all the details, but here are some highlights...we drove down, stopped at a hamlet where they were making rice noodles,
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Morning In Mekong Delta
On Tuesday morning we headed out to the Mekong Delta for our one night in a local homestay. On the way there, we visited a small Cao Dai temple before boarding our boat. The boats in the Mekong region are painted with two eyes in the
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Mekong – The Delta Strikes Back
It's truly amazing just how many plays on words you can come up with for Mekong. Just to prove it, here comes another. Whilst in Mytho, we decided to splash out on an 'expensive' hotel room. Good eh? But yes, we went a bit frivolous and spent $20 on
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