Chau Doc - Vietnam (Part 2)

The next day we got up relatively early! (lol) And went off to explore the market where we had great fun with some of the Vietnamese ladies. One of them wanted to run off with James. I was tempted to trade him in for a kilo of Lychees but decided against it. After all, he does have a smashing beard.

We went looking for a place for lunch and finally found some type of noodle bar. There was tres little on the menu again for me (yesterday I had to put my pork in Jim’s bowl) (ooh er missus). So I decided to order the one thing that had “(no meats)” written after it. Jim ordered some porky dish (they’re mad about pork). Boy did I look a right tit, when out came a small plate of chips for me!!! I had ordered chips. LOL. I tried to pretend like I had meant to order chips as the waitress lady looked at me with amusement. We hung onto them though and Jim shared his pork around. (fnar)

After more marketeering and wandering aboot, we headed back to the ranch. We booked one of the Mekong Tours at reception. There are plenty of tours around the Mekong Delta. We weren’t sure whether or not we would do one or not, but the tours we were looking at were covering the exact areas that we had planned to hit and apparently it is a lot cheaper to do the tours than to do it yourself.
After reading that some of the private boat hires can cost up to $25 an hour, we decided to do a 3 day tour. It cost $28 each and basically included all accommodation, bus transfers, entrance fees etc from Chau Doc to Ho Chi Minh City. It brings us on a tour of Chau Doc, then on to Cantho (120km)and includes tours of Cantho, Mytho, trips to a coconut candy mill, floating markets etc etc and the bus fare to HCMC. Wowsers. Bargaintown. I can’t comment on the rest of the tour as we have only gotten to Cantho today. (as I write this I mean).

So with our tour booked, we went up, showered and I promptly fell asleep! So Jimbob worked away on a track and when Queen Talulah woke up, we went out for some more grub. Jim was disappointed with his hot pot.
I found ten thousand dong on the street (about 60c). woohoo!
Lol
It’s the simple things right.. ?