Wet wet wet

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or should I better say "nach dem Regen ist vor dem Regen" ? Shalom, bonjour, good morning guys & girls. Our last day in Vietnam today, heavy rainfalls are flushing us over the border to Cambodia. Can u send us some parapluies please. We started rushing southwards thru the country and finally found peace in the Mekong Delta aka the south Vietnam rice basket, where we spent the last few days strolling along the little rivers and canals. Irrigated and sprinkled by the Mekong River, this delta produced itself alone one-half of the rice of the country, which allows Vietnam to become the third largest exporter of rice in the world. Clocks are ticking much slower in that region, people seem to be more relaxed and hearty compared to the north. Communication in general is quite challenging, u dunnot neet to make it to Japan in order to get lost in translation 😊 You barely get the chance to have a chat with locals and our Vietnamese is, how come, still lacking.
Vietnam is doing good economy-wise, seems that they're catching up with the big tourism business i.e. in Thailand, faster than expected. For sure some regions are changing dramatically, might be hard to recognize them in a few years time. To be honest we're looking forward to Cambodia and Laos where we wanna gear down for a little while.
Good to see that we are still on track since we intended to strictly follow the deep red Malaria route. But so far we haven't been able to infect some bloody moscito.
Chao folks, keep riding the big wave ... you are always on our minds as u know. Now check the pix and have a laugh ...

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Photos

A duck doesn't neet a driver license
and it gets a lift for free ... but at the end of a sticky day in rainy Vietnam it will certainly end up in a hot pot as com vit with loads of chili and some veg. What an unhappy end :(

Two old men having a conversationn
about the long-term social & economical impact of the spanish inquisition. Hmm, after some beers I suddenly started to understand what he was saying. Anyway, it still sounds all greek to me.

water life in South Vietnam
water from all directions ... don't even think about hopping on a local boat to cross the canal. We tested it, it's leaking everywhere.

Night Street Life
We crashed into a party in Han Tien (small port town close to the Cambodian border). It turned out to be a heavy duty beer drinking, spring roll eating and nasty dancing contestl. At least Irina won the dance as u can clearly make out.

Breakfast time - make your choice
Indeed u need to put all your courage to drink/eat the home-made snake cocktail.

Comments

[Mahe]

3Ds-The Drink the Dance and the Ducks!
Just wondering where you folks would be at this moment? in the forest in the rains, up the mountains, in the valley WHERE on earth are you folks, do you folks plan to venture into Combodia and Laos as well? My itinerary is set, im heading back home next week, should be back on 05-Jul and leaving for Bali on 11-Jul and back again on 18-Jul, so if you folks plan to head south we can meetup in Bali and come together.....do let me know your plans.. and i was just wondering if you people still carry around with you a small rectangular black device with NOKIA written on it......we call it a mobile phone.....i know you are away from civilization for sometime...just to make sure you dont forget such terms.... keep in touch, mahe

[Anne]

Irina won the dance contest, and you ?
You won the beer drinking one ? hey, you want to laugh, read that! Eduardo tried to compete with Toni during the last meeting (beer drinking contest, of course. Unless it was not beer at all ...) . Well I should rather say, during a night after the training ... Toni said the Promenade des Anglais was not wide enough ... :) Eduardo got lost somewhere in Nice, we don't know how he managed to retrieve his flat, and he did not show up before 13:00 the day after :)