Category — Vietnam

So we left Cambodia behind and took a slow boat down the Mekong & Bassac rivers into the Mekong Delta to the border town of Chau Doc.

It was definately a slow boat and took almost all day sowe were glad when we got  over the border and changed to a smaller boat that turned down intoa canal.  Here we could see the people and their homes, livestock and boats more closely which was interesting. 

Some of the more interesting sights were the many monkey bridges – rickety looking things that we saw a number of people crossing as we passed under and duck pens – fenced off areas on the bank of the river, with a small bit of water absolutely covered in ducks.  One pen was filledwith blue ducks!  Apparently they dye the ducksso they don’t get mixed up with the neighbours’. [Read more →]