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To Siem Reap
Wet start on bus with talk about spiders – our next stop. Spiders make useful medicine for malaria and for pregnant women. Crickets, water beetle, silk worm, spider. Skun town is where they sell the insects for eating near the Mekong … Continue reading
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The Killing Fields
Visit to Genocide museum. This was originally a school but under the rule of Polpot became a prison where the educated were taken. Here they were interrogated, tortured and either killed or sent to the Killing fields which we visited … Continue reading
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Off to Cambodia
Reasonably good night in the Bloom Hotel. Breakfast on the top floor with an outside area and view of sorts over the city. About three and a half hours to the Cambodian border with a comfort stop. Passing through was … Continue reading
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To the Tunnels in Cu Chi
We have to move hotels this evening. We were introduced to our local guide for the day, ‘Tiger’ (after Tiger Woods because he plays golf). We sadly said our goodbyes to Quan then left on the bus (with all our … Continue reading
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To the Mekong Delta
An hour and a half journey including motorway. Quan speaks of differing cultures in north and south Vietnam and about the river which is over 4000 km long from china, through Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam. He spoke of dry season … Continue reading
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To Ho Chi Minh City
Early start @ 5am. It’s still raining as we board the bus for Da Nang International airport. Quan handed out our breakfast packs which consisted of 2 slices of bread, butter and Laughing cow cheese, a boiled egg and a … Continue reading
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To the beach
Today was a down day (a day to ourselves). We were able to lie in and just gather our thoughts. Quan had a bit of an upset stomach so just as well. Six of us met up for … Continue reading
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To Hoi An
Good breakfast back on the bus. Quan talks about funerals in Vietnam and what happens to the body. Some years after burial the body is exhumed so that the bones can be cleaned and then reburied in stone or marble. … Continue reading
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Biker day!
Fortunately Gareth requested an extra half hour for us all before setting off this morning. The sun shone as ever over the city as I peeked through the curtains and we had a huge breakfast in the hotel dining room…. … Continue reading
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To the countryside by rickshaw
We woke to find ourselves out in the countryside, Paddy fields on one side, a river on the other and a heavy mist hanging over the rocky outcrops…. perfect painting scenery! Indu had everything with her for travel including a … Continue reading
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