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Day 2 Mekong Delta
Got up 6am I'm still tired even though i did eat yesterday But im on the mend as not more diarrehea woohoo. We went down to breakfast and dear god what a spread. I had bread as i was scared of everything else but George went up and got this Vietnamese soup and pho which looked so good so i had some veggie style and it was great and it stayed down another bonus. We met Dan our guide and the group at 7.30am to hop on our boat. The boat today had spongy seats so nice. We traveled the 6km to the river market on the water and off the water. it was a geat experience and i felt so much stronger today too. I'm so lazy i never put on sun cream when its cloudy and you think you dont burn but u do ah feck!!
We spent a good time walking about and boating so we got to see loads of foods and fruits etc. We saw how rice is processed and that Vietnamese men love to gamble because thats what they were all doing when we visited this small local factory ha ha!! We hng around Can Tho for lunch and i bought fresh tea; green tea and lotus and i got mum and dad some fresh ground vietnamese coffee.
We hit a local spot for lunch, how do you know its local you say!! because they didnt have a word of english ha ha i mean asking of a cold drink and ice tea was translated as something like warm drink and a cup of tea. bless them they gave us good very cheap food. We went back to the hotel to collect our bags when we cme across a little gem of a pogoda. the monk was super sound and brought us around explaining alot and he gave us incease and we prayed. We are so cool as we know how to pray the correct way. Check us out!!
The bus collected us and we headed off on our 3 and half hour journey to our home for the night Cau Doc. It was agood bus ride as we were hooped up on coffee so we observed lots from the safety of the mini bus. Such sights as 5 people on a moped and of course the classic breast feeding on a moped, i dont think that will help with the childs digestion. All i can say is im going to miss Vietnam big time. The people are one in a million or one in 84 million ha ha.
We got to our last hotel in vietnam and guess what it was floating. Check us out, this was never mentioned in the itinerary. So we all piled onto the boat, us and lad from holland two from italy and a german couple who had been with us from the start. The floating hotel had been open only 1 month and you could tell bless them. It was fined except for the cold shower, bloody hell it woke me up.
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