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Vietnam: Visuals

September 26th, 2006 · No Comments · Travel

DAY ONE: Phnom Penh to Chau Doc

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Boat at dock

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Cruising down the Mekong

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Chau Doc at night

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Internet café, Chau Doc

DAY TWO: Chau Doc to Cantho

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Breakfast at hotel in Chau Doc

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Exploring floating villages by rowboat

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Farming some sort of plant

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Little feller with a pixie stick

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Front of mosque

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Carpet in mosque

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Wee little cat

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Old feller having a smoke

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Back to dock in rowboat

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Overlooking the Cambodia-Vietnam border

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Lady Chua Xu Temple

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Hungry critter at croc farm

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A whole slew of juvenile crocs

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Soup that tasted like spicy fruity pebbles

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Hotel in Cantho

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First time bowling in a communist country

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The dragon fruit given to Buddha, then given to me

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The monk who gave us the fruit off the altar

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Cantho at night

DAY THREE: Contho to Ho Chi Minh City

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Floating market

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No minimum age to operate a boat apparently

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Making rice paper

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Cruising through the delta

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Tour guide Hip with a water snake

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Sautéed frog with curry

DAY FOUR: HCMC walking tour

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Intersection in HCMC

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Fish in Ben Than Market

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Beans in Ben Than Market

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Jesus among other gods, Ben Than Market

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Uncle Ho and City Hall

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Reunification Palace

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View from top of Reunification Palace

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War Remnants Museum

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US Army tanks, War Remnants Museum

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Protest poster, War Remnants Museum

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Barbed wire, War Remnants Museum

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Notre Dame cathedral

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Inside Notre Dame

DAY FIVE: Cu Chi Tunnels

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Unbiased documentary on the war

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One entrance to the tunnels

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Jon inside the tunnels

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Listening to one of many semi-historic spiels from Tour Guide Bean

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Ride on a moto across town

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Front of our hostel

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In the lobby at the hostel

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HCMC at night

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