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The pool on the 6th floor was fantastic. 30 by 20 meters and an even depth
of 1,2 metes. The view from the pool. |
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The vie from the pool of the city.
They had palm trees growing on the floor. They had plenty of earth
underneath.
The one end of the pool. |
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Martin
in the pool pointing out the clock he borrowed from the pool attendant.
Lovely pool bar that Martin visited in the afternoon. |
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Here, Martin is passing the clock,
keeping tab on his time. Really lovely in the
morning with no children. In the afternoon, it was crowded by children. |
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Then a lovely breakfast. The food
is fantastic on these VinPearl Hotels. Lovely
fruit. |
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The restaurant is enormous. Can handle a lot of
people. It is laid out very smartly so there is no queues anywhere.
I call this breakfast sumptuous. It is grand and obviously
expensive and has everything.
Her we have Martin's lovely junk food.
Different kind of sausages. |
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Bacon is also one of Martin's junk
food favorites. Off to the river. We are after
all, in the
Mekong delta. |
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Our restaurant ship from the night
before. Another restaurant ship with no
customers. |
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Our local boat taking us for a
ride. Boat IDs on the side of the ship. |
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Martin and Phuong on
the boat. One of the many barges on the river. |
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This is on of the many
branches of the Mekong river. See the map above.
One big long-tail boat with a V6 Martin presumes. Very common. |
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Our hotel seen from the
river. Another barge transporting a digger. |
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Phuong on the bow of
the boat. Martin is happy sitting where he is.
Shit weed. The water hyacinth is native to the Amazon Basin in South
America. |
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It is
clogging up the rivers and canals for Vietnam.
One of the many bridges across the tributaries of Mekong. |
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More of the shit. It is
a tough plant to get rid off all over the world.
The floating market. Here a shipload of water melons are coming in. |
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There are some attempt
to use the weed for
something useful. It is every where.
Water
hyacinth can be used as a vegetable, fodder, green manure, compost and
mulch for soil improvement. Much research has been devoted to its use as a
feed material for many classes of livestock.
It ferments rapidly due to its high water content and can supply biomass for
biogas production. |
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Our local town.
Phuong loves her phone. Cannot live without it. |
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The floating market. Boats come in and sell
stuff wholesale to the local merchants. |
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It is every where.
Water
hyacinth is a pest and a plague over most of the world. Except
Scandinavia where it is too cold for the shit.
Whatch the video.
Time for a break on our trip. |
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Big shop sells anything
dried from the river, including frogs. Dried
fish of all kinds. |
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Back to the city where
we visited and old French jail. Two of the wax
figures, ready to be executed. |
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The prison was used as
a transit camp before the French shipped them to Con Dao, the main prison
island in Vietnam during the colonial times.
Martin went to Con Dao in
September 2020. Prison room with leg irons. |
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Not a nice way to treat
anybody. Phuong didn't like her photo taken with
one of the prison guards. |
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Phuong with the prison
guards in wax.
Then off to the
Army Museum of Can Tho. |
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Martin at the M41 tank
used by Vietnam against the Pol Pot bandits.
Selection of American military hardware captured after 1975, |
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A M48, American tanks,
also used against the Pol Pot murderes. Martin
liked his M41 with dual 40mm guns. |
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A SAM (Surface to Air
Missile) and Phuong. Phuong playing with the
wheel of the M48 Patton tank. |
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Details of the 105 mm
howitzer. Nice piece of equipment.
The indoor museum was closed for the day. |
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Ship guns used in the
invasion of Indochina in 1865. Phuong shown here.
Martin likes them too. |
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