We've had an angry day. A couple of cyclo riders (a sort of passenger trailer attached to a bicycle that they use as rickshaws here) picked us up from the local tour agency office at 9 this morning, and took us to the river for a boat tour of the Cham minority village across the water. Robbie was in tears by the time we got on the boat: I hadn't noticed it, being in a different cyclo, but she'd seen a woman near the market selling live egrets trussed up on the pa...

Thankfully we both slept well last night so are feeling more sprightly. We breakfasted in the restaurant of the Kim Lan hotel, which is like a little glass penthouse hut right up on the 8th story. Great views of an unpretty town. The bus company we were travelling with to Chau Doc sent a shuttle vehicle to our hotel to take us to the bus station for the 9am bus. Can you beat that for service? The journey took 3 hours, then they delivered us to Trung Nguyen Hotel...