After revisting Phnom Penh for the 3rd time, we took a slow boat down the Mekong and crossed the border into Vietnam. We stayed in Chau Doc and then in Can Tho, where we did a tour of the floating markets and around.
Vietnam is a different world to Cambodia. The whole place is just buzzing with people and motorbikes and boats and bikes and buses and cars and cyclos and more people. It makes you realise how poor and small Cambodia and Laos are. There is a constant drone in the back of your skull from the reverberation of motorbikes.
Floating down the Mekong was pretty relaxing though- the people were super friendly- especially all the kids waving out at us. Our guide gave us an impromtu Vietnamese lesson while crouching the roof of a shop boat, writing with a pineapple core- HEO! is PIG!
It was all riduclously photogenic and I got all snap happy.
In Saigon now- and the roar of the motorbikes at 5pm is phenomenal. Crossing the street is mental. You have to just go for it- as you start trying to wait for a 'gap' you're doomed. Moving slowly, motorbikes whizz past you at every angle.
I think I really like it!
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