Feeling tired from my hectic couple of days it time to soak up what HCM has to offer. Just some coffee in the street, with some free tea of course. I'm practicing my Vietnamese and I am pleased to say that my pronunciation is improving. Well it would need to be, I have been here for nearly 2 months. ----- It's interesting to me how my trip has not turned out how I planned. When I started I had rough time scales, but now? Phhft. Anything can happen. I hoke out m...

6am comes to quickly and when I come down for breakfast Tea make a comment that I look dead. Thanks Tea. It is a short walk to the port and we are on a boat again. It takes about 40mins for us to get to the floating market. It is not what I expected. I though it would be a narrow part of the river, with boats lined up either side where we could buy stuff from our boat. Instead this is more like a wholesale market. Large boats in the middle of a wide part of the r...

Up early and just about make it to the tour office in time. Tea is already here and not pleased that I was late. Ha. We get taken by a guide down the street a short while and on to the bus. A decent bus with AC and pretty good leg room so I'm ok with that. We get on our way and the tour guide talks about the plan, and the times. Of course I take everything he says with a pinch of salt, Vietnam time. After 2.5 hours [told it would be 1.5] we arrive at a port. We g...

Today is a day of relaxation. I spend the day trying to come to terms with the fact that Elias has sold his bike, and the deal he had for mine has fallen through. I will have to see about getting something sorted for the sale of my Moto, because I can't leave here until I do. Luckily there are many posters around the place looking to sell Motos, so there must be a demand. Obvious my poster will need to be the best and not one of these generic crap ones, I'll get ...

Elias has told me that he has found a buyer for my bike, so after breakfast I go for a look around to see how much it will cost me. There is a place opposite the hostel that I check first, he is looking 500,000, I know that is ridiculous an so I'm not interested in that. I check another few places in the surrounding area, a lot of them don't fix the Honda Win, bizarre as there are so many here with the amount of back packers. I decide to give spencer a call and s...