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Vietnam and Cambodia tour photos Some Vietnam and Cambodia photos gratefully received from David, taken on his recent 2-week Saigon to Phnom Penh Overland tour. Keeping the blurb to a minimum and in approximately the correct order, then we have… David struggling to emerge from one of the Vietcong tunnels at Cu Chi, near Saigon (Ho Chi Minh), bearing in…
Traditionally the kingdom’s 2nd largest city, the western town of Battambang Cambodia has surely been overtaken by now by booming Siem Reap and although still relatively prosperous from the Province’s fine farming land, (indeed it’s sometimes known as ‘Cambodia’s rice bowl’), it has, so far, been largely bypassed by the country’s tourism boom. Well, until recently that is, and these…
The famous floating villages and fishing communities around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake are well known, with the more easily accessible ones such as Chong Kneas and Kampong Phleuk now firmly on tourist itineraries. Far less known are these River nomads of Western Cambodia – people who spend the whole year travelling up and down the rivers leading into the huge…
Chau Doc To discover another of our very favourite spots in Vietnam, the riverside town of Chau Doc, we’ll travel to the opposite end of the country from the hill resort of Sapa and the rugged mountains of the Chinese border to the lush Mekong Delta region in the country’s far south. This small yet bustling riverside town is located…
Xeo Quit Xeo Quit, or Xeo Quyt, has always been one of our favourite stops on our 3-day Mekong Delta programme; – the dense, lush, impenetrable jungle with monkey shrieks and exotic bird squawks and the swampy, dark waters full of unidentified splashes and ripples just sum up how we’d always imagined the exotic-sounding Mekong Delta to be in the…