Jaunted posts about a trip along the Mekong River from Phnom Penh to Chau Doc, Vietnam. CS&W has posted on Cambodia before, and once visited Chau Doc, a sprawling Mekong Delta river town on the Vietnam/Cambodia border.
Starting here on the Cambodian border at the south end of the country, let's take a photo tour right on up to the Chinese border.
Vietnam is vivid, bloody hot as hell and completely alive, in the south from the Mekong Delta right on up to Saigon, then along the coast via the "Reunification Express" train to the ancient coastal city of Hoi An, right on up to Haiphong harbor and the lovely Halong Bay area, up to the capital Hanoi and even further up to the mountainous border with China at Sa Pa. So let's have a look.
Chau Doc , on the Cambodian border, is home to floating warehouses:
If you travel a short distance by road out toward the sea, you'll come to the town of Can Tho . At the famous floating market there, merchants display samples of what they're selling on poles:
Victoria Hotels have properties in both Chau Doc and Can Tho, and can put on a program for you connecting the two.
Or, you can charter a speedboat from Chau Doc to Saigon, which is fascinating at the rainy season, when flood waters stretch just about to the horizon, as seen here:
Here, we're in a temple in Cholon, near Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as it's still more popularly known:
On up the coast to the ancient trading town of Hoi An, there's a thriving and vivid morning fish market:
Drop in and see Uncle Ho at his mausoleum in Hanoi:
And then, after a short (but jarring) three hour drive, hop aboard a cruise on Halong Bay:
The best for last? Possibly. Sa Pa, up in the hills north of Hanoi on the border with Yunnan province, China, is gorgeous:
Pro prints of all these pictures and hundreds more are available from EarthPhotos.com's Vietnam gallery.
Comments