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Visiting Vietnam’s Floating Markets: A Day in the Mekong Delta:

Visiting Vietnam’s Floating Markets: A Day in the Mekong Delta:

Yesterday afternoon Dan and I took a bus from Ho Chi Minh City south to Can Tho, the biggest city in the Mekong Delta region, with the goal of getting up early and spending a day at Vietnam’s famous floating markets. We fist heard of the floating markets while watching a travel show on Netflix and it looked like an experience we couldn’t pass up. After some initial confusion about where where to buy bus tickets we successfully made it…

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Four Days in Ho Chi Minh City

Four Days in Ho Chi Minh City

We are four days into our trip and I’m struggling to put my impressions of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) into words. We arrived at 1AM on Wednesday night after almost 20 hours of travel and I have to admit that, in my exhausted and jet lagged state, I did not love Ho Chi Minh for the first couple of days. We spent our first two days wandering around the city, trying to get our bearings and trying not to…

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