Day 15 & 16 - Mekong Delta
About 20minutes into our drive to My Tho our car driver gets a call and asks us if we have our passport. Damn left them at the hotel in Saigon. Damn - at least we are going back there. Finally arrived at our hotel - and yep - it was a dump in which nothing looked clean. Oh well - of to our first place of interest and it was basically a temple which had a giant statue of Budha and a giant statue of some one that looked like the priest "tripitaka" from the TV show 'Monkey' magic - I really should have paid a little more attention to our guide, Tuyen, on our way over here.
After that boat ride to tour the 4 island - dragon, Unicorn, phoenix & turtle islands. Saw coconut lollies being made, had some honey straight from the bee hive as well. One of the staff got stung by a bee so considering it didnt seem like the staff had control of their animals i turned down the opportunity to hold their snake.
Lunch was great - 'elephant ear fish' rish paper rolls followed by a lie down in hammocks. In the afternoon we were given a bike that looked about 20 years old and we went on a heltmetless bike ride through rice fields and on public roads. I wasnt keen to give the roads a try but it wasnt that bad and i felt as though the cyclist on a road is given a lot more respect that cyclists on roads in Australia after about an hour i wished id chosen a bike with a softer seat. scenery was great and I cant get over how friendly everyone is as they yell out 'hello' as you ride by. After our bike ride a quick beer and then back on our boat which took us to see some fireflies for about an hour.
The complimetary dinner which was including in our tour package was rubbish - basically a big restaurant, all tables have dirty table cloths and its empty. After the 2nd rubbish dish was served we told the waitress we were full and left and went to the pub a few doors down from our hotel. Stayed out as long as possible to minimise the time we had to spend in our hotel room.
Woke up the next day and went to the pub for breakfast rather than the place we went last night. New day brings us a new guide "Leung" who took us to Cai Be floating markets, then to some food factories where rice paper rolls and peanut lollies were made, lychees were shelled and tinned, and salt was made purer. Lunch was good and after it we went to a snake farm - very interesting - but i didnt buy a bottle of the snake wine, even the one with a king cobra and 2 dead birds in it didnt take my fancy....
This was followed by our 2 hour drive back to Saigon.
After that boat ride to tour the 4 island - dragon, Unicorn, phoenix & turtle islands. Saw coconut lollies being made, had some honey straight from the bee hive as well. One of the staff got stung by a bee so considering it didnt seem like the staff had control of their animals i turned down the opportunity to hold their snake.
Lunch was great - 'elephant ear fish' rish paper rolls followed by a lie down in hammocks. In the afternoon we were given a bike that looked about 20 years old and we went on a heltmetless bike ride through rice fields and on public roads. I wasnt keen to give the roads a try but it wasnt that bad and i felt as though the cyclist on a road is given a lot more respect that cyclists on roads in Australia after about an hour i wished id chosen a bike with a softer seat. scenery was great and I cant get over how friendly everyone is as they yell out 'hello' as you ride by. After our bike ride a quick beer and then back on our boat which took us to see some fireflies for about an hour.
The complimetary dinner which was including in our tour package was rubbish - basically a big restaurant, all tables have dirty table cloths and its empty. After the 2nd rubbish dish was served we told the waitress we were full and left and went to the pub a few doors down from our hotel. Stayed out as long as possible to minimise the time we had to spend in our hotel room.
Woke up the next day and went to the pub for breakfast rather than the place we went last night. New day brings us a new guide "Leung" who took us to Cai Be floating markets, then to some food factories where rice paper rolls and peanut lollies were made, lychees were shelled and tinned, and salt was made purer. Lunch was good and after it we went to a snake farm - very interesting - but i didnt buy a bottle of the snake wine, even the one with a king cobra and 2 dead birds in it didnt take my fancy....
This was followed by our 2 hour drive back to Saigon.
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