{"id":26,"date":"2005-07-03T12:32:35","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T11:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airstudios.com\/simonandolga\/?p=26"},"modified":"2013-07-04T20:57:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T19:57:33","slug":"mekong-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Mekong Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Made it into Vietnam by boat down the Mekon. Pictures of boats (ooh there&#8217;s another boat) to come&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Hooked up with three girls also travelling down the Mekon (lucky Simon) and booked all five of us onto a tour. Saw a Cham village, a fish farm, rice factory, noodle production and more. However being ferried between the &#8216;attractions&#8217; by a local rowing boat was the highlight. A most relaxing way way to travel.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/boatflag.JPG' alt='' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/olgaboat.JPG' alt='' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/girls.JPG' alt='' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/tails.JPG' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course we had had to dress in the local style if we wanted to procede any further<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/simondress.JPG' alt='' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/olgadress.JPG' alt='' \/> <\/p>\n<p>Second day we floated round a floating market. Each boats wares were held aloft on a stick. So it was easy to buy your melons, turnips and bananas, all at wholesale prices!!<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/floating.JPG' alt='' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/melons.JPG' alt='' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/meat.JPG' alt='' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.simonknee.com\/simonandolga\/wp-content\/watermel.JPG' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>And what better way to end a busy day than a slap-up feast shared between five; steamed chicken, squid noodles, goat curry (yes, very tender) , steak and curried snake (sea snake and python). To finish a nice desert wine&#8230; snake wine! A rather cheeky little rice wine number only there are five different snakes (including cobra) that have been soaking in it for a few months. Good for the health acording to the locals.<\/p>\n<p>Love to the veggies (or should that be apologies)<\/p>\n<p>Simon and Olga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made it into Vietnam by boat down the Mekon. Pictures of boats (ooh there&#8217;s another boat) to come&#8230; Hooked up with three girls also travelling down the Mekon (lucky Simon) and booked all five of us onto a tour. Saw a Cham village, a fish farm, rice factory, noodle production and more. However being ferried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonandolga.simonknee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}