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The major river of SE Asia is the lifeline for millions of Vietnamese.\u00a0 We negotiated with a family who owned a small freighter to transport us (Hugh, Keith & I) down the river from just south of the Cambodia border to the closest city to Saigon.\u00a0 We do not know the name of this family – a mother, father, teenage daughter, son (pictured below) and a small dog.\u00a0 This family lived on the river – they normally transported bananas from the south but this particular trip the freighter was empty on their way south.\u00a0 The family was somewhat nervous at the outset with the 3 white travelers – we were loaded down with expensive cameras, laptops, etc. and smiled a lot – after a couple days they got comfortable with us.\u00a0 Hugh had a Vietnamese phrase book which turned out to be totally useless so we could not verbally communicate with our hosts. We consider this one of the best adventures we ever had – right up there with the time we got stuck on a sandbar in Myanmar on a much larger freighter. Photo of the boat and family when they dropped us off (center photo above).<\/p>\n

Checkout this slideshow of the river and the numerous stops we made along it.<\/a><\/p>\n

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