While everyone was heading to the stunning beaches of Nha Trang, Mui Ne and Vung Tau to escape the summer heat of HCMC and to celebrate Reunification Day and International Labor Day, 100 members of the 2030 Club decided to go downstream to Dat Mui tourist area in Ca Mau City, the southern tip of [...]

Nestled in the lowlands of Long Xuyen, Sap Mountain or so-called Thoai Son Mountain has splendid landscapes filled with history of the opening of the Mekong Delta. Thoai Ngoc Hau, a general during the Nguyen Dynasty, led the army and thousands of residents to dig the Thoai Ha Canal in 1818 with rudimentary tools. The [...]

From Saigon we decided to try and make an effort to do things our way, away from the tours if possible. All started well when we got a bus out to the main bus station, with a sniggering bus conductor who told us to get off way too early….we didn’t quite get the joke, but [...]

Yesterday I spent in Saigon. First I took a taxi to the War Remnanats Museum – what an upsetting experience. If you think Mai Lai was an isolated incident think again! Quite how the Americans justified killing and disembowelling 3 boys aged 10, 8 and 6 I will never know. Several war reporters witnessed civilians [...]

My last day in the Mekong Delta brings me to the foot of Sam Mountain. Having filled my plate with magical visits to My Tho, Can Tho, floating markets, rural schools and mud-floored huts, I look forward to a peaceful, uneventful hike up this hill of a mountain near Chau Doc and the Cambodian border. [...]

The Mekong Delta covers an area of 67,000 square km in the Southernmost region of Vietnam and often referred to as Vietnam’s rice basket, is the biggest rice – growing region in the country, the rich alluvial soils producing 3 harvests a year and delta products include coconut, sugar cane, fruit and fish. General information: [...]