Can Tho to Bên Tre - Indochina Pursuit - CycleBlaze

March 18, 2018

Can Tho to Bên Tre

The Mekong Delta is a maze

I left Can Tho by crossing the Can Tho Bridge. It's Vietnam's most expensive bridge. It's also their only bridge to cross the Bassac River, a distributory of the Mekong.

I continued on the major road for a dozen or so km. Then I saw some interesting smaller roads on Google Maps and decided to try to take a shortcut.

Once again there were many additional roads and bridges that are not on Google Maps, nor in OpenStreetMap. So I was spoilt for choice. I was on busy roads for only sort stretches.

View from the roof of my hotel. The Can Tho Bridge is sticking out on the left.
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Every plant in this plantation had it's own light bulb. To attract insects ??
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Andrea BrownThese are dragonfruit plantations. We were on this route a year ago, it’s great but the roads we were on were under construction with a lot of stones. Glad you found better ones!
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Nic RoetsThank you!
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I love the canals and the narrow little bridges. They filter out all the commercial traffic.
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A bull crossed the Mekong with us.
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An even narrower bridge. The sign says "forestry. Canadian tea market. sponsor" lâm . thị trà ở Canada . tài trợ
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These canals are quite narrow. So they proceeded to a junction with another canal before they could turn their boat around.
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Boat on the Bên Tre River.
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Today's ride: 111 km (69 miles)
Total: 4,081 km (2,534 miles)

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