"Now we will enjoy a 3 hour Bus ride to My Tho. Now we enjoy the big boat to My Tho Market, please come back to the boat in twenty minutes. Twenty. Two-O. Twenty. Minutes. Enjoy the market for twenty minutes please."
"Now we will enjoy the big boat to Dragon Island Dragon. D-R-A-G-O-N Dragon Island, where you will enjoy your lunch. L-U-N-C-H lunch. Then you will enjoy a boat ride to Tortoise Island where we will enjoy the Coconut Candy factory and some traditional Vietnamese music." The tradition of which seems to be to get your voice to go as high and as strangled as possible whilst singing random words accompanied by a band who clearly don't know which way up to hold their instruments. "Then we will enjoy a rowing boat trip through the canals on Tortoise Island." Where the lady rowing our boat roaped me in to help and then expected a tip!
"Then we will enjoy a boat journey to the bus, bus to Can Tho including a ferry crossing in the pooring rain, and a motorbike & trailor to homestay." At this point we left our guide which was frankly a relief as we didn't feel like we had to enjoy our homestay but we really did enjoy it, lots of home made food and a lovely hut overlooking the river and some good company. Here's Ben making the most of the authentic decorations in the room.
The next morning we took a stroll through village, and a boat to a rather dissappointing floating market, another boat to a rice paper factory where we met with our previous days' guide and then a boat to a paddy field "Where we we will enjoy walking over the unbeleiveably thin and precarious Monkey bridge", or not as it turned out.
This was followed by yet another boat to yet another rice factory, boat to bus, bus to Saigon.
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