There are two ferry options when leaving Chau Doc for Phnom Penh. There’s the “slow boat” which takes eight hours and the “fast boat” taking five.

It took five hours by bus through villages, over canals and rivers, between rice paddy fields and fruit and vegetable plantations to get from Can Tho to Chau Doc

An early morning start is always a lottery; sometimes the effort is repaid with a spectacular sunrise and sometimes not

The mighty Mekong river separates Laos from north and central Vietnam, wanders through Cambodia and spills out in the South China sea via the Mekong delta in southern Vietnam.

After the fall of Saigon in 1975, the unified Vietnam became a communist country. Recently it moved away from a strictly communist ideal. And it’s this juxtaposition of communism and capitalism that interests and intrigues me traveling around Vietnam.

What’s to be said about Ho Chi Minh City that’s not been said before? Described in romantic sentences filled with superlatives in any guide book you care to look at, the city is everything that’s said about it, and more.