Smooth sailing in Mekong Delta, Vietnam
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My Tho Town offers a welcome respite from the rough and tumble of Ho Chi Minh City.
After five days of shop-tillyou-drop in Ho Chi Minh City, a splendid place for such activity, we were sorely in need of another short holiday to recover from this one.
“Why don’t you travel to My Tho this weekend?” a Saigon friend of mine, suggested. She described the perfect antidote to our days in HCMC: “It’s a peaceful, riverside town hidden in lush orchards.”
A day trip to Tien Giang Province sounded like a great idea to us – me, this northern girl, and two friends of mine from Los Angeles.
Tours to Thoi Son Island – My Tho can be booked at:
On the road to this town, there was a curious sense of homecoming for me as my father used to work here as an engineer during the subsidy period.
My Tho is around 72 kilometers south of HCMC. Since the 17th century, the fertile land in the north of the Tien River has been reclaimed and developed by generations… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
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