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I understand that one can travel with some minor planning from My Tho to
Chau Doc on any number of cargo ships that make the trip a few times a week. It lasts about 17 hours according to what I've read on the web. From Chau Doc, one can then travel on the Vinh Te Canal built in 1814 on a perhaps smaller boat to Ha Tien on the southern coast. This is an eight hour trip according to what I have read. It seems a nice way to relax and take in the scenery, although I understand the accommodation on these boats offers a good dose of culture shock. Has anyone done this trip? rg |
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I meant to post this on rec.travel.asia. Sorry.
rg "Sharkbait" wrote in message news:TRxMj.530$SR2.456@trndny03... I understand that one can travel with some minor planning from My Tho to Chau Doc on any number of cargo ships that make the trip a few times a week. It lasts about 17 hours according to what I've read on the web. From Chau Doc, one can then travel on the Vinh Te Canal built in 1814 on a perhaps smaller boat to Ha Tien on the southern coast. This is an eight hour trip according to what I have read. It seems a nice way to relax and take in the scenery, although I understand the accommodation on these boats offers a good dose of culture shock. Has anyone done this trip? rg |
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I spent almost three years over there between 1968 and 1971 and lost many
friends. I got over it, married a fine Chinese-Vietnamese woman and never looked back. I hope you recover from your demons and wish you well. rg "TMOliver" wrote in message ... "Sharkbait" wrote in message news:TRxMj.530$SR2.456@trndny03... I understand that one can travel with some minor planning from My Tho to Chau Doc on any number of cargo ships that make the trip a few times a week. It lasts about 17 hours according to what I've read on the web. From Chau Doc, one can then travel on the Vinh Te Canal built in 1814 on a perhaps smaller boat to Ha Tien on the southern coast. This is an eight hour trip according to what I have read. It seems a nice way to relax and take in the scenery, although I understand the accommodation on these boats offers a good dose of culture shock. Has anyone done this trip? Yes, many years ago, aboard a variety of small vessels entirely unsuited for cruising. Detracting from the voyage was the occasional 7.62mm round whizzing by, or the traumatic site of the ignition of an RPG on its way in your direction. Whilst I was too early for Swift Boats/PBRs, and the scenes in "Apocalypse Now" are perhaps over dramatic (and the river and the greenery are wrong), an evening with the DVD, good whisky and plenty of ice far outweighs any pleasure, then or now, provided by the jaunt up "**** Creek" as it was once affectionately known. May those of both persuasions whose bones rest in the primordial ooze, their flesh decaying but not their memories, rest in peace, their rice bowls full, their beer cold, and the sounds of their revelry still rising above the dark nights' silence. Dai Uy |
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