So it has been a busy couple of days and between all the activities and trying to find time to get electronic equipment charged I have not been on the computer much.

My last to days in Vietnam (going back at the end of the trip) was spent in a tour of the Mekong Delta. We started of a bus trip down to towards the south. In the tour I did the day before I had seen all these rest spots on the side of the road. It looked they sold drinks, had tables and chairs. The best bit was they also had loads of hammocks setup to use. So on this trip we finally got to stop at one. Basically if you buy a drink you can use a hammock as long as you want, the locals will use it as a stayover of the night on long trips.

After a bit of relaxing in the hammock we continued on to our first stop which was a little restaurant by the side of a small arm of the Mekong back waters. There we got to try some of the local friuts and got to listen to traditional music. We then head to the water and got in small row boats to another place about 15 minutes down the river.

Here we saw how coconut candy was made, got to taste their honey tea - the honey supposedly can cure anything by the look of the list they showed us. We then got to hold this huge snake, the first time I had ever done so - it was pretty cool. From here we all got of one big boat and went down the Mekong Proper to Turtle Island, one of the four main islands in the Mekong. Here we had some lunch before moving on.

Then we went on to see a large Buddist temple which have some of the biggest statues I have ever seen. From here we split into two groups, those who were spending the night in town and those at a home stay. At the home stay we help the family prepare dinner and then sat down for dinner and a few drinks before heading to be early as the power goes off at 9:30.

The next morning we got up and had breakfast before getting on a boat to meet up with the other part of the tour. We ended up do a boat transfer over the the other group in the middle of the Mekong and once all together we went down to check out the Floating Markets. Though mainly for normal large volume trading there was also small boats cruising around offering food and drinks.

After this we wend to a restaurant that sell "exotic" food where i got to try snake and rat. The snake was a bit chewy, but the rat was quite nice, it had a very similar texture to chicken but tasted a bit more meaty. That was pretty much the end of the tour, we stopped in town for lunch but I was still quite full from my rat and then we had the 5 hour bus trip back to HCMC where I waited for my night bus to Cambodia.

The internet is a bit erratic here, so it might take a while before I get any photos up on the site.