Saturday, 23 March 2013 at 06:13
Get up at 6 at George & Tom's and juggle for the shower then take taxi to travel agent's to start the Mekong Dekta tour. Grab some breakfast yoghurt and banana from nearby shop and a iced milky coffee from a cafe.
Collected by agent and board a big red bus that is largely full of backpackers... must be something to do with the extremely high price we have shelled out. Something tells me this might be slightly different from the first part of our Vietnamese adventure...which is probably quite a good thing...a change is as good as.....
Long journey to the Mekong. Stop along the way to see traditional Vietnamese music (brilliant), a 4 seater traditional boat trip through some Mekong creeks and pass factories bagging up thousands of tons of rice. We board a larger boat to take us first to Turtle Island where we have lunch and then further into the delta on the coach to our hotel.
Hotel room a bit like a damp prison cell but, hey, maybe I'm getting a bit too used to the high life. The tour we nearly booked at a hotel was ten times the cost....with the change, I could buy a motorbike....
...but I digress...we buy a meal out for next to nothing. A bottle of Saigon Red is almost 50p here..hell!
Check out qualifying for Malasian GP...Ferrari OK but another dismal McClaren performance but JB seems a bit happier with the car...happier is a relative term here.
As I sink into to the rock-hard damp matress, I refect on the varied life we lead and what a great bunch of people the backpackers are.
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