Today was a wonderful day. I slept a lot so getting up early for my tour was easy and I even felt rested. The tour itself was to the Mekong river Delta and my tour mates were a couple of Aussies. We road on a private bus out. Which was comfortable and we learned from our guide Jackie along the way.
We then rode a boat to unicorn island where we had honey tea (hot water, honey, lemon and bee pollen) and a few snacks.
Then we ate tropical fruit and listened to folk music.
Next was to see the making of coconut paper and thy ten are a fair bit of it.
We visited a coconut candy factory and even tried coconut wine.
Then road a cycle cart thing on crazy tiny roads to a lunch of all kinds of Vietnamese food. We finished the trip by riding a canal in a sanpan boat before heading back to the hotel.
I ventured to the huge market in HCMC and made a few purchases including getting half off a beautiful table runner by bartering down the price.
I met up with my group next and it should be an interesting trip. An Indian couple from Australia, a couple from England, a lady from Germany, a lady from Italy, an Aussie from a rural, a couple we haven't met yet and if course Rita. So 11 people total.
Our guide Sum took some of us to pub Street (Aussie, Italian and German). I drank Strongbow and finally had my chicken pho. It was a great day.
Tomorrow we check out early (7:45) and head to Phnom Pen Cambodia.
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