Saigon to My Tho - Pandaw Mekong River Cruise - My Tho, Vietnam (pandaw mekong cruise review)

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to My Tho, Vietnam by TravelPod blogger Astons. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Saigon to My Tho - Pandaw Mekong River Cruise "We are strangely sad to leave Saigon - although we have seen the main sights I feel that we have not done it justice and it would easily sustain a few more days' investigation. We were transferred the five minute journey to the Renaissance Hotel to register on the Pandaw cruise. There was a fair amount of chaos with the baggage and I wondered if that did not bode well for things to come - I could not be more wrong. After a 2 hour coach trip we arrived at My Tho and we welcomed aboard the Mekong Pandaw. The staff are absolutely charming and cannot do enough for you, the boat has an old world colonial charm and the cabins are spacious and well equipped. We gathered for a welcome drink and briefing before a buffet lunch. The food is local and very good - after lunch we set off on a trip to the local town. Without doubt unless you see a country like Vietnam from the river you do not really see it at all. We boarded the local day boats for a trip to Cai Be a busy commercial town with a floating market. This was not the normal floating market but a wholesale one where smaller traders came to buy goods to sell at the market or in the local shops. Each boat sold just one item - pumpkins on one, sugar cane on another etc.... suspended on a bamboo pole above each boat was a sample of the ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 2m 8s Date Found: Fri, Dec 10 2010 1:25 PM Category: Travel Date Produced: Fri, Dec 10 2010 1:18 PM View Count: 0