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It is time to say goodbye to Ho Chi Minh City, pity, because I’ve grown rather fond of it. The city feels the same way and doesn’t want to let us go, holding us tight in the morning traffic jams during rush hour. We have to take a short detour, some fellow travelers have ordered sheet sleeping bags at Benh Tam market, that they have not picked up yet. All in all this costs us an extra fifteen minutes to leave town. We drive for about an hour and then make a short stop to stretch our legs...

  We had arranged our pick up for 7:30am so no chance of a lie in. The only cash point in My Tho that allows me to take cash out with my card has been out of order all week and my funds have finally dried up. Emma very kindly came to my rescue and paid my share for the trip and gave me some 'pocket money'. Cai Be is 1 hour by car from My Tho and I fought hard to stay awake but painfully gave in to the inevitable 5 minutes before arrival. We had found out about the markets from Lonely Pla...

Always wanting to visit Vietnam ever since 2004, even bought my copy of Lonely Planet 7th edition on Vietnam at that time (now 8th edition), but never had a chance to go due to reason like: 1) No friend are interested to go with me 2) Hearing “unfriendly” comment about Vietnam that make u think say to yourself “hmm, better not to go” Until one day, my brother-in-law was mentioning it, as he was going over for business! Ha, here’s my chance! I try my luck and ask around my frie...

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Against my traditional beliefs, I did a Mekong 1-Day tour.  Supposedly it was the least touristy of the crop, but I think I may have been fooled.  It stopped off at the floating markets at first, which were nice to see and I was surprised in the fact that we weren't asked to buy anything by kids floating around on the boats.  Amazing stuff.  After being forced like cattle to go to some coconut candy workshop and rice cracker workshop, we got in seperate boats and were padd...

06:00 opstaan, ontbijten en check-out. 08:00 uur vertrek uit Ho Chi Minh City. We worstelen ons door het drukke verkeer naar Benh Tan Market, waar een paar medereizigers een lakenzak besteld hebben, die ze nog moeten halen. Met omrijden erbij geteld kost dit ± 15 min. De eerst volgende stop die we maken is pas om 09:15. Hier liggen verspreid over de velden mensen begraven, de regering wil naar centrale begraafplaatsen toe, maar gezien de Vietnamezen aan voorouderverering doen begraven die de...

In November 2007 i visited Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand