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Transport: You can travel from Saigon to Chau Doc by a public bus or a rented private car. Chau Doc offers motorbike rental services and taxis. Accommodat­ion: We choose Victoria Nui Sam Lodge, the price of a double room is about 1,400,000

Vnd/night. The hotel is on the mountain so it has many stairs, you should not carry oversized luggage and people with foot pain should consider whether they want to make the trek.

Cuisine: Must-try dishes are fish vermicelli, fish hotpot, jaggery, common sesban (a kind of yellow flower that tastes a bit like Tonkin creeper), river-leaf creeper, Siamese sticky rice, white olive...

Tourist attraction­s: Mount Cam tourist area, Ba Chua Xu shrine, Tay An pagoda, Thoai Ngoc Hau tomb, Cham Da Phuoc village and Cham Chau Giang village.

Other notes: You should bring mosquito sprays, mosquito nets and wear long sleeve clothes to prevent dengue outbreaks. Although September to November is the rainy season, the sunshine is still intense, so you should bring sunscreen, a hat or umbrella.

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