Gooooooooooood Morning VIETNAM...!!!!!

Oh yes, so having recovered enough from my accident to get back on the road again Cindy and i took a bus then 2 small boats along the Mekong River to cross the border into Vietnam on the 18th April.

We started off in the very south at Chau Doc, a small town which introduced us nicely to the local life in Vietnam. We spent a few days here just getting a feel for the country, eating at the local markets and visiting Sam Mountain, before taking another small boat out to the fish farm and floating village as we continued on to a lovely slightly larger town/city - Can Tho.

From here we spent a really wonderful day where we hired a guide and a long-tail boat with a woman we'd met from Germany, to give us a real taster of life along the Mekong River. We started off on the water in time to see the sun rise through our sleepy eyes before arriving at the hustle and bustle of the great floating markets...

Here we saw every type of fruit and vegetable that you could imagine, being passed and sold between their wobbly little wooden boats... this really was where all the local business took place! Such a fantastic experience! After taking in all the sights of the market we then floated along the very narrow, and rather shallow canals, where we kept getting caught up and stuck in all the weeds and plants along the way. At one point we thought we were going to be wading back home but our fantastic little man got us back still nice and dry! ;)