Mekong to Cambodia

We are now in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. We had a fabulous 3 days on the Mekong and look forward to visiting Ankor Wat in a few days! Here are the pictures!

<-- A view of Ho Chi Minh City from our dinner cruise... $10 for everything, not too bad!

Mekong Day 1:
<-- As we were getting on our bus we spotted our friend Ron from Taiwan on vacation! What are the chances?
<-- On the Mekong, and a perfect day for it.

<-- Houses on the flooded Mekong. During wet season the Mekong is flooded about 3 months every year! People use bikes or boats depending on the season!


Where's Waldo? (On a 'monkey-brigde' on the Mekong, used by people, not monkeys.) -->

<-- Me and a Python outside a candy-making, picture embroidery, honey-bee rasing, traditional folk music shop we visited.


<-- Eating Cobra in Can Tho.
<-- Baby Crocodiles! Too bad they are being raised to become purses.









Day 2:
<-- A boat in a vegetable market on the river. They advertise by tying what they sell on a stick.

<-- Hiking up Sam Mountain, the mountains in the distance are in Cambodia.

<-- We were invited for dinner at our guide's family's home. We ate snails and clams and drank beer and rice wine. It was all very tasty.

Day 3:
^-- You can see the whole area on the left is flooded, the rest of the year it is filled with rice paddies.

<-- Another picture of the flooded Mekong. That should be a full tree and power line next to a road.

At 9:30am we boarded the first of what would be a series of boats to get to Cambodia. We then transfered to a 1.5hr bus ride across a very bumpy road to arrive in Phnom Penh at 6pm. The architecture here is very different, our favorite so far.
<-- Pagodas around Phnom Penh.