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Beautiful smiling people
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Some tourist traps
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Another corner of the world that is worth visiting
chizz Says: Our group took a guided tour on the Mekong River to see the floating market at Cai Be. Here we went aboard a local boat selling pineapples and bartered with the sellers for goods. The tour gave us a good chance to see how the local people live and work on their houseboats....
pfsmalo Says: This is the biggest floating market on the Mekong.
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pfsmalo Says: I loved this couple of hours on the water, getting up early to be out there and watching the sights.
pfsmalo Says: This was a great thing to do . Four days cruising down from Chau Doc to Cai Be, stopping off here and there to visit and also using the bikes on board to venture further away from the river to the villages too far to reach on foot and don't even have a name!!
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Visit the brick and floor tile factory near Sadec.
pfsmalo Says: This was an interesting visit of the factory along the riverside, following the making of the tiles from the moulding, sizing and cutting to the baking and finally loading onto barges to go up to HCMC. Most of this work is done by women for about 2 dollars per day.
pfsmalo Says: Sadec is also the place , if you are arriving from Cambodia, where you will first run into the famous "papillons blancs"or white butterflies. "Papillons blancs" is the term used by the Vietnamese to describe the teenage college girls that wear the pure silk "Ao Dai" national...
pfsmalo Says: Sadec is a place to be recommended, a nice laid-back provincial town that has a lot going for it. The same friendly people you find everywhere but without any hassle whatsoever. This is the town Marguerite Duras lived and where the book and consequently the film "L'amant" is...
pfsmalo Says: I really enjoy the contact with the people. The Vietnamese are very similar to the Cambodians in that they have a very happy and welcoming character.
pfsmalo Says: This is a small village built almost entirely on stilts and inhabited exclusively by Muslims, about 200 Cham families. No problem to go walkabout although it is becoming more touristy, so inevitably more begging from the kids.
More people and views of the Mekong.
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Lazy River - at least for passengers!
Mel&Mike Says: A part of our package involved a floating village tour where you saw where fish were bred, shopping boats, and just daily life.
Binh Hoa Phuoc - adress unknown.: Splendid surroundings.
pfsmalo Says: This was a lovely place to stay that also has no name. We were just lucky to come across it because of our guide. The huts on stilts were set in remarkable grounds, flowers everywhere. The sides lifted up to create a breeze that was a boon at night. Reasonably comfy beds...
Minority Village in the Mekong Delta
Mel&Mike Says: Yes the whole package from Saigon to Phnom Penh is a bit of tourist trap with its stops in a coconut candy factory, a rice krispy factory or the dinner in an authentic restaurant. However, the stop in the 'minority village' is over the top. They drop you off the boats and...
pfsmalo Says: A side trip from Cai Be is the village of Binh Hoa Phuoc (or villages) as they are so close to one another , you can't tell the difference, is a superb day. Taking a sampan along the canals we first came to a small factory where the girls sit and work emptying the Mekong...
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A part of our package involved a floating village tour where you saw where fish were bred, shopping boats, and just daily life.
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The first time I came here I spent 3 days, the second time 5 days cruising and there's still so much more to see and do it's unbelievable !! People seem to be on a permanent happy hour, very friendly...
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Life - far from Idle on the Mekong
One of my most treasured experiences of this holiday was spending time riding in a boat with these two little girls. They were very friendly and knew a small amount of English. I taught them how to......
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Cai Be floating market. Hier wordt fruit & groenten uit de mekong delta verhandeld midden op de rivier. Verkopers hebben aan een lange stok voorbeelden hangen van de producten die ze in de aanbieding...
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