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hanno wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:51 am I worked in Chau Doc for a total of 6 years and it is arguably my favourite town in Vietnam.

I took the hi speed boat from PP to Vietnam in 2003, passing through Chau Doc for visa. Ended up staying there for a week on the way back. I really loved the place, not a white skin to be seen the whole time I was there.
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Tootsfriend wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:49 am
hanno wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:51 am I worked in Chau Doc for a total of 6 years and it is arguably my favourite town in Vietnam.

I took the hi speed boat from PP to Vietnam in 2003, passing through Chau Doc for visa. Ended up staying there for a week on the way back. I really loved the place, not a white skin to be seen the whole time I was there.
I would have been there back then.
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hanno wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:51 am
Tootsfriend wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:49 am
hanno wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:51 am I worked in Chau Doc for a total of 6 years and it is arguably my favourite town in Vietnam.

I took the hi speed boat from PP to Vietnam in 2003, passing through Chau Doc for visa. Ended up staying there for a week on the way back. I really loved the place, not a white skin to be seen the whole time I was there.
I would have been there back then.
Is it possible to get a boat from Chau Doc to Hai Tien? Or would a taxi be better? It's 90km (by road) so a slow boat might take all day!

I was thinking about a nice way to get to Hai Tien and then onto Pho Quoc, and this route looks like a very interesting option.
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Doc67 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:45 am
hanno wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:51 am
Tootsfriend wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:49 am
hanno wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:51 am I worked in Chau Doc for a total of 6 years and it is arguably my favourite town in Vietnam.

I took the hi speed boat from PP to Vietnam in 2003, passing through Chau Doc for visa. Ended up staying there for a week on the way back. I really loved the place, not a white skin to be seen the whole time I was there.
I would have been there back then.
Is it possible to get a boat from Chau Doc to Hai Tien? Or would a taxi be better? It's 90km (by road) so a slow boat might take all day!

I was thinking about a nice way to get to Hai Tien and then onto Pho Quoc, and this route looks like a very interesting option.
When I was in Chau Doc last, around 2020, there was no regular boat service to Ha Tien. There was supposedly a way to get onto freight boats, but I never tried as the trip would probably take a couple of days.
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Very interesting trip report and photos, @SINUS. Many thanks for sharing!
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I took that boat from Phnom Penh a few years ago, but there were only 4 passengers, so they kicked us off the boat at Chau Doc and paid for our bus ride to HCMC.

Is it possible to take the boat all the way to HCMC? I seem to remember that it was supposed to go as far as Can Tho, and then I would have had to take a bus from there, anyway.

Great trip, regardless, and Chau Doc was interesting from what I saw.
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Ryan754326 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:49 pm I took that boat from Phnom Penh a few years ago, but there were only 4 passengers, so they kicked us off the boat at Chau Doc and paid for our bus ride to HCMC.

Is it possible to take the boat all the way to HCMC? I seem to remember that it was supposed to go as far as Can Tho, and then I would have had to take a bus from there, anyway.
The boat PP - HCMC stopped aeons ago as there was not enough interest. They then launched a massive boat Can Tho - PP around 2007; turned out to be a spectacular failure. I did the speed boat PP - HCMC a couple of times; it was awful. You are better off in a bus.
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Tootsfriend wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:49 am
hanno wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:51 am I worked in Chau Doc for a total of 6 years and it is arguably my favourite town in Vietnam.

I took the hi speed boat from PP to Vietnam in 2003, passing through Chau Doc for visa. Ended up staying there for a week on the way back. I really loved the place, not a white skin to be seen the whole time I was there.
I know of three barangs who lived in Chau Doc for a time (not including Hanno at the Victoria). One of them opened a bar. He is a regular poster here.

Great photos.
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