Saigon Kim Lin Vinh Long

... relaxed, took in some scenery and tried various different types of unpronounceable fruits which the crew brought to us every 5 minutes. Lan filled our heads with lots of information about life on the Mekong, most of which we have forgotten now, but it was interesting at the time. We passed massive ships one minute containing the raw material for making bricks and tiny long tails the next with a family fishing from it. We also saw boats with pigs, fruit, veg, and everything ...

... devenir une petite fourmi parmi toutes les petits fourmis vietnamiennes pour mieux les connaitre!
Quelle bonne idee!
Je pourrais m'en sortir avec mes cheveux bruns. J'aurais besoin d'un petit rabottage de nez, c'est sur et de bons cours de vietnamien. Ce n'est pas gagne mais probablement tres faisable sur quelques semaines voire mois. Quelques cours de cuisine pour ameliorer le maniement des baguettes et la ...

... many things to look at (buildings, lights, shops, temples), smells to sniff at (yummy food of course), and sounds to hear (the constant beeping of horns of motorcycles, buses, vans etc - there are a gazillion scooters everywhere! the roads are hilarious, very hairy trying to cross them).

The first night we were there we stayed at a guesthouse that wasn't really such a good choice. Turned out there was major construction ...

... one you’d be lucky if you died, being stuck there in agony seemed much worse. We climbed into one tunnel and crawled along for twenty metres, it’s hard to imagine the VC being able to get in or out of these tunnels at speed in times of emergency, but they seem to have managed. To round off the trip we took a few shots in the rifle range, it was cool just to say we fired these guns, but it was nothing special and quite expensive. After lunch we visited the War Remnants ...

... gekostet :-) Auf der anderen Seite haben wir uns den langsamsten Bus nach Vinh Long ausgesucht...fuer 25km haben wir satte 60min gebraucht :-)

Vinh Long liegt mitten im Mekong Delta. Die meisten Touristen gehen nach My Tho oder Can Tho, um das Mekong Delta zu entdecken und genau aus diesem Grund sind wir in Vinh Long :-) Morgen versuchen wir einen Bootsmann zu ueberwaeltigen, um uns auf dem Fluss auszutoben...
Vinh Long, Vietnam vera_und_alex

... find beer for less than 10 cents of a Euro
- In Vietnam the less teeth you have the more spit is expected
- If you're gonna spit, it has to come from deep inside
- When eating noodles we expect you to slurp it. Don't be shy!
- In Vietnam if you have a beard it consists of 3 very long hairs in the neck that you'll meticulously grow all life long!!
- Ho Chi Minh was an exception to the rule and still is a national ...

... and Co Chien rivers.

I stayed in a home stay and explored the delta from boats and with my motorbike.
Interesting to see how the Mekong plays a major role in Vietnamese day-to-day life here.

The next day I made it back to Saigon to catch my plane to Darwin, Australia.
I liked Vietnam very much, a country with a people of character and pretty girls too.. I'll be back.

... dried fruit, fish and other unidetifiable objects proved to much so we left...but not without a troop of salesmen that follwed us up the road for at least 100 meters, sir sir, you buy, you buy now..... most persuasive salesmen i have met...
The beggers were in force here too, alot are victims from the vietnam war....deformed from the chemical warfare the yanks bestowed on them...

- we ended up sitting in the park across the road, and almost immeditaley we had ...

... want him to take us, probably cos he gets commission or something - i dunno :)
As we crossed over the road we decided to checkout the buses going to RACH GIA (rats ear) as there are lots of travel agents on this street. We were advised to go to the main bus station for the ticket (mein tay). When we asked the tourist info guy he said it was far away and the best thing to do was go to the Mailinh Express bus station to get the ticket as its closer.  You never know what to believe do ...