Around the world #39
Mekong River
Vietnam
7 Day 6 Night | Mekong River | Day 2.1
We bought our tickets from a tour agency that is located near the hotel at 785k dong ( Sin $48) for both of us. This is a tour group with about 15 pax, pick up and drop off will be at respective hotel. Prior to this trip, I have enquire about Mekong day tour from various agency and most of them offered $100USD ( Sin $140/Pax) for a private tour. Hence I personally encourage you to get your activity and package in Vietnam.
We had our breakfast at the hotel before we left for the tour (: They had awesome Pho, Super love.
The first stop was a chinese temple, with one of the largest buddha in that area standing 3 storey high.
We were just in time to witness their daily prayer for lunch time, as all of the tourist crowd around the main hall to watch the event, other monks were busy preparing food and drinks at the back.
We reached the ferry terminal and our boat trip starts here (: For most of this trip, the transportation was by this bigger ferries as shown below. Our group has a good mix of tourist and one of the family was from Singapore !
The mekong sapan boat was a short little experience, where the boatman, mostly woman who will row us to another part of the island through the palm trees. One of the Sapan can only hold 4 passenger and we went together with the tour guide. From what he told us, the boatman earns from the tips that the passenger give them. Hence remember to give some generously!
We went to their coconut sweet production factory and as told, it was one of the famous delicacy in that area. When every step was still handmade and wrapped.
After the tour, we had a lunch break under a huge hut and this weird looking fish was the first dish they served. They slice the fish in pieces and wrap with mint leaf with a flour skin as a starter, personally too fishy for me. hahs
Pretty flower from the tour guide at the end of the trip (:
Love,
Yin Zhen
Next Nah Trang <3
7 Day 6 Night | Mekong River | Day 2.1
We bought our tickets from a tour agency that is located near the hotel at 785k dong ( Sin $48) for both of us. This is a tour group with about 15 pax, pick up and drop off will be at respective hotel. Prior to this trip, I have enquire about Mekong day tour from various agency and most of them offered $100USD ( Sin $140/Pax) for a private tour. Hence I personally encourage you to get your activity and package in Vietnam.
We had our breakfast at the hotel before we left for the tour (: They had awesome Pho, Super love.
The first stop was a chinese temple, with one of the largest buddha in that area standing 3 storey high.
We were just in time to witness their daily prayer for lunch time, as all of the tourist crowd around the main hall to watch the event, other monks were busy preparing food and drinks at the back.
We reached the ferry terminal and our boat trip starts here (: For most of this trip, the transportation was by this bigger ferries as shown below. Our group has a good mix of tourist and one of the family was from Singapore !
The mekong sapan boat was a short little experience, where the boatman, mostly woman who will row us to another part of the island through the palm trees. One of the Sapan can only hold 4 passenger and we went together with the tour guide. From what he told us, the boatman earns from the tips that the passenger give them. Hence remember to give some generously!
We went to their coconut sweet production factory and as told, it was one of the famous delicacy in that area. When every step was still handmade and wrapped.
After the tour, we had a lunch break under a huge hut and this weird looking fish was the first dish they served. They slice the fish in pieces and wrap with mint leaf with a flour skin as a starter, personally too fishy for me. hahs
Pretty flower from the tour guide at the end of the trip (:
Love,
Yin Zhen
Next Nah Trang <3
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