Mekong Delta

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Why Go? The Mekong Delta, which is the ‘rice bowl’ of Vietnam, is a landscape carpeted in a dizzying diversity of greens and slashed with mighty waterways. There is a water world at which restaurants, boats, houses and many markets float on the innumerable rivers, canals and streams that flow through the region like arteries. […]

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Mekong Delta Highlights

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Mekong Delta Highlights  Kick up red dirt on a motorbike ride to the far-flung corners of Phu Quoc Island.  See the sun set across the Gulf of Thailand from a Phu Quoc Island beach.  Join in the throngs amid the bustling commerce of the floating markets on a boat trip from Can […]

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Ben Tre kingdom of coconut trees

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As visitors took off in the Mekong Delta, the remarkable small province of Ben Tre was always one ferry beyond the tourist traffic of My Tho and consequently developed at a more languid pace, though the opening of the Rach Mieu Bridge from My Tho funneled more travellers into the area. The town’s sleepy waterfront, […]

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My Tho

Gateway to the Mekong Delta, My Tho is the capital of Tien Giang province and an important market town – though for the popular floating markets, you’ll need to go on to Can Tho. In the 1680s, My Tho was founded by Chinese refugees fleeing Taiwan after the fall of the Southern Ming dynasty. The […]

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