Chau Doc (12/30/2012)

Sunday, December 30, 2012
We arrived at the dining room before it opened for breakfast. We noticed that we were already docked at Chau Doc, and the way was open:

So we disembarked to take a short walk.
Christmas decorations:

Hmm, the dung shop:

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Also, the medical high technology ward:

Riverside park hedges:

Riverside park fountain:

The symbol of Chau Doc: Basa catfish:

Sampans:

Vietnamese sidewalk restaurants must be one of the largest consumers of children's furniture:

Back on the RV Indochina where we have a choice of cereals, yogurts, and fruits:

Plus breakfast meats, hash browns, pancakes, and you can have eggs cooked to order. There is always a special Asian breakfast dish with rice or noodles.
We transferred to a water bus for our 8:30 excursion, and joined the river traffic of water rickshaws:

And water taxis:

There were houseboats:

We disembarked at a Cham village:

Rickety dock (we were told to keep one meter apart so as to not overload the dock!):

Patti's new hat:

Flood levels:

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Cham children:

Cham women:

Cham men:

Wooden puzzles:

Too bad we had just eaten breakfast:

Cham toddler:

Our guide, Thien, points out a septic tank:

Amaurornis phoenicurus/White-breasted Waterhen:

A two-week old baby!

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Colorful laundry:

Weeding:

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Bringing home bamboo poles:

Back into our water bus to go to a fish farm:

That's Tom's group boarding their water bus.
The floating fish farm sits over quite a a netted area. Boards in the floor can be removed to access the fish. They threw in fish food pellets to excite the fish:

Living quarters:

The neighbor's floating garden:

Mixing a batch of fish food from rice husks or bran and fish parts:

The machine that feeds the above mash to the fish:

We returned to the RV Indochina, only to immediately hop on the trishaws for a tour of the town of Chau Doc.
Kent:

Tamiko:

A farmer vendor uses a trishaw:

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Friendly girls:

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Wild fabrics:

Bakery lady:

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The market:

Scooter family:

Pastel shophouses:

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PlayStation shop:

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What the...?

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Lone new house:

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A ferry big enough for cars:

This time when we returned to the boat, we boarded. We were to depart at 11:00, but were held up by a sister ship who had double-parked:

They had missing passengers (it was a Russian tour group). We left an hour behind schedule.
Next, Cu Lao Gien.