South East Asia Day 12

April 2008

That morning we took a long bus trip to Ho Chi Minh City (9 hours), which also included 2 ferry crossings.

At one point DH plant rice with some Vietnamese women in a field, a priceless travel experience.

We enjoyed lunch at a roadside restaurant of whole fried elephant ear fish, which was fantastic.

That night after checking into our hotel, we enjoyed dinner at Sao Dong which is outside the Binh Than markets. We enjoyed our meat and salad roll your own rice paper rolls.

We enjoyed an evening stroll around the city, where we saw the Olympic torch relay, the Rex Hotel, Opera House and City Hall.

South East Asia Day 11

April 2008

In the morning we visited Wat Phnom, which is a Buddhist temple in Phnom Phen.

We then took off on our 5 hour boat trip down the Mekong, crossing the Cambodian boarder into Vietnam.

We arrived in Chau Doc late afternoon, in what is apparently a popular resort town. After checking into our hotel we took off on a bike tour to  Mt.Sam, which was interesting to say the least. DHs bike got a flat tyre and my bike had water in the fuel.

That night we had dinner on a floating restaurant before enjoying beer at a street bar for about 50c.