A few more Caminos

I'll finish this category with a few more photos of the varied caminos we rode on.....

The narrowest were the rice paddies. The slipperiest were the concrete, mossy and just-after-the-rain caminos. We had to ride slowly and carefully.

Sometimes rice paddies were so beautiful we jumped for joy, although one of our group fell in and had to be fished out of the sticky mud!

We continued riding along the very fertile and productive rice and coconut fields.

A day or two later our first view of (possibly) cool mountains was a wonderful treat.

 Rani celebrates with her CrossFit strength.

And life goes on along the caminos of Viet Nam.

Viet Nam & Cambodia: EL CAMINO

I do apologize for being so lax and late in my travel blogging. In the time since we arrived in Singapore  I have been traveling here and there: to Viet Nam and Cambodia with Rani, to Hong Kong with Bill, and with various visitors on this island; therein lies the problem. They put their blogs up so fast that I'm left thinking that mine will just be a repeat of theirs; same pictures, same stories. So I get lazy or feel redundant. Ok, my challenge is to show a different angle.....

I'll start with Viet Nam and Cambodia: Rani and I spent almost 2 weeks visiting and cycling in the Mekong river delta of southern Viet Nam, eventually ending our trip in Siem Reap, Cambodia (famous for the temple complex of Angkor Wat). Rani did a great job chronicling the adventure in her blog http://rani-by-the-sea.blogspot.sg/2014/07/cycling-through-vietnam-southern-mekong.html

I'll fill in the blanks with a few more pictures -Posting here every other day by Category.

1.) EL CAMINO (the road, the route, the path, the track, the way, the journey, the direction) Pardon my spanish, but there is no all-inclusive word like this in english.

Thankfully, we were driven outside the city (Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City) in order to start our trip. You'll see in a later post how crazy traffic can be in big cities. So here we are, just starting out on a camino that is getting muddier and muddier. 

and clearly undergoing some repair!

So Vu, our guide has us turn around and find a better road.

Ok, much better.

We pop out of the rural roads occasionally and ride in small towns.

Or towns with a bit more wiggle room.

We frequently cross the rivers and canals by ferry,

or over bridges.

The mother-daughter team in the afternoon of a great day.