Trip to Tan Chau

We are not people easily dissuaded by adversity, therefore once again we decided to undertake a new trip by bike. This time the objective was Tan Chau, a village 18 kilometres from Chau Doc, famous for its silk market. This time, finally, both of us managed to get appropriate bicycles, which was good given the quality of some of the roads we cycled on and the fact that we cycled most of the way with one hand off the handle bar while doing our “royal salutations”. The 18 kilometres between Chau Doc and Tan Chau are full of houses along the road. From all the houses we received greetings from children, youngsters and elder that came to say “hello” to which we had to respond by waving our hand and another “hello”. Given that Vietnam is one of the most densely countries in the world this implied a “hello” every two pedals!

Either because it was the last day of the Vietnamese year, either because the information in our guide was not up to date, we failed to find the famous silk market. Oh well, couldn’t have been perfect….