Can Tho, Vietnam : 15 Nov 10

I'm in Can Tho on the Mekong River tonight ... busy place ... and nearly got run over by a motor bike ... my hand was on the motor bike ...stopped just in time!

I just went for a boat trip with a lady and her 5 yo son, Duong. Duong was very very cute ... yeh I got clucky :)) I was just walking along the waterfront and this lady asked me if I would like to go for a ride in her boat so I thought why not! It was fun and her son showed me his school work and we sang songs and tickled each other and took photos of each other ... I was practising my English teaching skills on him ... he was not very responsive ... need more practice! anyway it only cost me 100,000 dong and was a nice way to spend an hour.

I just had Vietnamese rice paper rolls filled with rice noodles and prawns and veges ... I have been hanging out for those ... yum! I tried Can Tho beer ... wouldn't recommend it !!

Today we did a trip to a Fish Farm in Chau Doc and then went to visit a Cham village. I met a girl from Darwin just briefly but she was going the opposite direction to me.

Then on the pamphlett it said that I would get a boat on the Mekong to Long Xuyen and then a bus to Can Tho but then the itinerary changed to a cyclo trip to a pagoda and then the bus to Can Tho ... I questioned the guide about this and his response was "the boat is broken" ... right!! The cyclo trip made up for it :)) was fun!

Tomorrow I am going to Cai Rang floating markets ... the biggest and busiest markets on the Mekong (along with 30 other people in the tour!!!!) ... it's okay cos I read in the Lonely Planet :)) that a tour is the easiest, quickest and cheapest way to see this part of the Mekong so I will survive I'm sure. And then tomorrow night I do the Home Stay ... really looking forward to this although when I told the girl from Darwin that I was doing a homestay she said to me with a worried look on her face "have you done a home stay before??" ... hopefully will be okay ... the Lonely Planet says it is the only way to go in this area ... the LP does not lie!!!!

And I am busy organising my time in Laos ... check out http://www.gibbonx.org/ ... have enquired about the Tree Spa .. the ultimate treehouse and canopy experience and you see Gibbons ... hope so much they have room for me :))