Nui Sam

Nui Sam is the highest mountain in the Mekong. We just had to climb it. So we took 2 Bikes including driver. Visited a strange cave temple first, Buddhas with glasses and statues with a Mother Mary likeness.

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A granite monolith 200 m high.
The way up the stairs was halfway inside Restaurants (had no chairs just hammocks) and the other half inside shrines and temples.
Stayed till sunset.
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Kamputschea – Mekong – Vietnam

Following and old tradition we tried to reduce our luggage by sending home some stuff. 15 kg, new record.

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The total amount sent home is about 50 kg and we still have substantial luggage left. But it is now greatly reduced.

And now a challenge. What is the package that has the maximum Volume matching this criteria:
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Astrid found a better solution then I did.

We then embarked on a ship to Vietnam down the mighty Mekong. Here the promise
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and what we got
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Mekong, bye bye Phnom Penh
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Finally in Vietnam, Chau Doc
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bye now, have to brush the kids teeth.