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ome more backroads towards Ben Tre to get to My Tho. Roads are gettin more busy...closer to saigon...sunday relocations after Tet holiday? We have a feeling the roads are always this way...moto's all around an occasional car/bus honking continuously to get them to move so they can pass. Funny, but also a bit dangerous & mostly loud!
To get to Ben Tre we took our first real ferry in the Mekong as we needed to cross one of the 9 river runouts that are streaming through the Delta. They get loaded up fast and full and they are leaving continuously. Bikes are 1000vdg...about 0,05 usd!? (for a solid 15min ferry ride that is, not a small little stream or whatever) Next crossings have bridges & some big ones too! Looked like copies from the big bridge in Can Tho...make 1 good design and then just use it as much as possible? That's profitable engineering!
In Ben Tre we bought some Keo Dua (coconut candy) for which the town is famous, but it was a bit hard to find a non-durian flavoured version...king of fruits, maybe, but it rieks of shit seriously. Finally got 2 packs of sweets so we have a small supply of biking candy.
It took us some time to find a decent hotel in My Tho. Strange so far that has been real easy in Vietnam...& My Tho should be the tourist getta-way from Saigon?? Nice, big hotels are expensive and it seems there are not a lot of others around. Finally took a old place which looks a bit worn, but actually has everything & more then the basics needed. A night market dinner & some ice cream for dessert in along the river park. Chocolat for Line & rainbow for Ardan...rainbow = chocolat, strawberry & yess, unfortunately Durian...dow. Lets remember to no longer take 'mystery' combo's :-) Rest of the evening we prepare ourselves mentally for the epic entrance into Saigon tomorrow :-)
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ome more backroads towards Ben Tre to get to My Tho. Roads are gettin more busy...closer to saigon...sunday relocations after Tet holiday? We have a feeling the roads are always this way...moto's all around an occasional car/bus honking continuously to get them to move so they can pass. Funny, but also a bit dangerous & mostly loud! To get to Ben Tre we took our first real ferry in the Mekong as we needed to cross one of the 9 river runouts that are streaming through the Delta. They get loaded up fast and full and they are leaving continuously. Bikes are 1000vdg...about 0,05 usd!? (for a solid 15min ferry ride that is, not a small little stream or whatever) Next crossings have bridges & some big ones too! Looked like copies from the big bridge in Can Tho...make 1 good design and then just use it as much as possible? That's profitable engineering!
In Ben Tre we bought some Keo Dua (coconut candy) for which the town is famous, but it was a bit hard to find a non-durian flavoured version...king of fruits, maybe, but it rieks of shit seriously. Finally got 2 packs of sweets so we have a small supply of biking candy.It took us some time to find a decent hotel in My Tho. Strange so far that has been real easy in Vietnam...& My Tho should be the tourist getta-way from Saigon?? Nice, big hotels are expensive and it seems there are not a lot of others around. Finally took a old place which looks a bit worn, but actually has everything & more then the basics needed. A night market dinner & some ice cream for dessert in along the river park. Chocolat for Line & rainbow for Ardan...rainbow = chocolat, strawberry & yess, unfortunately Durian...dow. Lets remember to no longer take 'mystery' combo's :-) Rest of the evening we prepare ourselves mentally for the epic entrance into Saigon tomorrow :-)
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