Thankfully this is our last long bus journey of the whole trip, though after today we lose our guide Bank and we're on our own! The day begins with packing (again) and a quick breakfast before a 2 hour trip to the ferry. We pass numerous small Vietnamese villages with waving children, unruly traffic and colourful markets and drive over many small bridges over parts of the Mekong delta (often not looking likely to support the bus's weight). Then we all pile out at...

A long travel day today to cross the border into Vietnam. After four hours through small villages and lots of countryside we reach the border. Luckily its quiet and there aren't any queues. We have to carry all our stuff about 300m to get stamped out of Cambodia then into Vietnam, paying one dollar for the privelege on the Vietnamese side. Then its off to Chau Doc, about an hour from the border. This city is right on the Mekong Delta and most of the local people...