Getting around the Mekong Delta
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About Mekong Travel Links
Mekong Travel Links is an independent guide to getting around the Mekong Delta. This page explains who writes it, where its timetables and figures come from, how check dates work, and how to get a mistake corrected.
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What this site is
Mekong Travel Links is written for independent travellers who want to move between the towns of the delta on their own: by coach, van, boat or plane. Its core is the leg — one journey between two places — and for each leg we try to give the distance, a usual time, what that time is based on, the official source and the date we checked it.
The site is written by the Mekong Travel Links editors. We read operator timetables, government and legal texts, airport and port announcements and national newspapers, and we write them up in plain English.
Where the facts come from
- Operators' own pages for timetables and fares — the boat company's site for the Chau Doc – Phnom Penh speedboat, the ferry companies' sites for the island boats, the bus station's site for addresses.
- Official and legal texts for rules — National Assembly and Government resolutions, transport circulars, immigration pages.
- National newspapers — Tuoi Tre, Sai Gon Giai Phong, VnExpress, Viet Nam News and others — for new roads, bridges and airport changes, usually with the reporting date.
- Ticket listings for what coaches are actually sold at on a given day, marked as such.
- OpenStreetMap routing for road distances between town centres.
Where we use our own estimate — a journey time worked out from distance where no timetable exists — the table says "Est." Where sources disagree, we say so and give both rather than picking one.
How check dates work
Sections that contain timetables, fares, opening dates or rules end with a line naming the sources and the date they were checked. That date is when we read the source, not when the source was published. Fares are always reference figures with their source date; we do not publish third-party prices older than 2025.
Delta transport changes fast — a bridge opens, a ferry stops, an airport closes for works. A date more than a few months old on a fare or timetable line is a signal to check with the operator before you travel.
What this site does not do
- We do not sell tours, tickets, car hire or rooms, and we do not take bookings or payments.
- We do not include an operator in a table because it asked or paid; operators appear because travellers use the route they run.
- We do not answer on behalf of bus, boat or airline companies, or check seat availability.
- We do not pass the details you send us to any company.
Some pages carry advertising spaces. They are labelled "Advertisement", kept outside the tables and text, and have no influence on which operators are named.
Corrections
If something on a page is wrong or out of date — a departure time, a station, a bridge that has opened — tell us through the form on the contact page. The most useful reports name the page, quote the line, and link to the official source that shows the change.
We check the report against the source. If it holds, we change the page, update the check date on that section, and where the change matters to a traveller's plans — a route that no longer runs, a new departure point — we say in the text what changed and when. We do not quietly delete a wrong figure; we replace it with the correct one and its source.
Common questions
Questions readers send
Who runs Mekong Travel Links?
The site is written by the Mekong Travel Links editors as an independent travel-information site. It does not sell travel.
How often are timetables checked?
Each section shows the date its sources were last read. Time-sensitive lines are rechecked when readers report a change or when a new road, bridge or airport change is announced.
Can a company ask to be listed?
Operators appear when they run a scheduled service on a leg we cover. Tell us about a service through the contact form and include the official timetable.
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Write to the Mekong Travel Links editors
Ask about getting around the Mekong Delta, tell us when something on a page is out of date, or suggest a source we should list. Mekong Travel Links does not sell tours or tickets and does not pass your details to any company.