MEKONG DELTA TRIP - HCMC

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Hi everyone

Well this is our last night in HCMC. Today we went on a day trip to the Mekong Delta. The actual river is a toilet - so very nervous about falling in! Very interesting travelling through various districts of HCMC. Slightly wealthier than the actual city in some areas. Very good guide who gave us a lot of information. For instance one of their special coffees is weasal coffee - the process is feeding weasals coffee and then collecting their droppings. The enzymes give a special flavour - yeh right! The coffee costs 1500 dollars per kilo. The snake whiskey looked revolting in the bottle that was full of dead scorpians but tasted okay - Bob declined as we were told that it was aphrodisiac for men. He says that was not the reason - whatever Bob! Not that he needs it (sorry kids!). A good lunch was provided and then a canoe ride was offered - Bob went but I declined as I am a bit òf a pussy and stayed on the bigger boat. On the way back the heavens opened and we had torrential rain - the first of the season apparently. Got a good soaking on the way back to the hotel. Did eventually stop and we went out for drinks and food. Must stop drinking every night as we are not on a two week holiday!! Have tried to eat like the natives as they are so bloody skinny and feel as though I have put on a stone - probably the heat that has made my body swell.

Tomorrow we leave HCMC for Nah Trang - takes 14 hours so we have booked a "sleeper" coach that look really good with proper beds.

Anyway hope this is not too boring for you all but nothing really scary or exciting hás happened - not that we want scary!

When we learn how to upload photos we will include a few of them.

Love Lyn and Bob xx

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Comments

[sandra charlton]

Where the F..k are you guys
Where the f..k is HCMC. Also, it was nice to be referred to as a kid. Bob............Think I would of tried the aphrodisiac, if you know what I mean! S and S x

[LovelyDaughter]

Oh for the love of god, did we really need *that* information?