Ho Chi Minh City. Pfewwww. What a place. So in your face, especially after Hoi An. The flight was pleasant and short, only 2 hours. Arriving at the airport we first sought out some stuff to leave here. My brother, sister and father would leave from here the 22nd to Singapore, so it would be easy to leave all the souvenirs at the deposit. I also left some stuff i didnt need anyway. The taxi trip to the city was crazy. There was so much traffic, moto’s, cars, taxi’s, busses… realy amazing. It haddn’t been this bad. I filmed a little of it, the traffic was going left to right and nobody was prepared to give in a cm. The hotel we had in mind was full, but ther were boys on the street that took as to a nice guesthouse arround the corner in no time. Airo, fan, nice bathroom and relativly quit. We even had National Geografic Channel and Discovery and HBO!

We went in to the city to have a look. A lot of bars, people, motos and restaurants. This is one crazy city! After we went for a drink in a bar close to the hotel, and had dinner. After dinner, we had to celebrate Caroliens birthday! We had a cocktail in a bar and asked some English people for a club. Is was arround the corner, two blocks away. We didn’t find it, but as we were looking we met some Vietnamese people who were going to a club and asked us to come with them to the Muzik Room. It amazed me that it was a quite modern club, and the music was nice to. We had a great time, and at 2 pm the club closed and we went back to the hotel.

The next day we had to arrange some things. Tickets to Phnom Penh, plane tickets from Siem Reap back to Ho Chi Minh, and change money. After all this Mark and Rob went to the war remnants museum and Carolien and me went to a big market. Later we met at the hotel, and we searched out a nice restaurant in the Lonely Planet. We went there and it was amazing: three floors full of tables, and most people seemed to enjoy food from a small BBQ that was placed on your table so you could grill your own food. Off course we had to try this and it was great. They served rat, bugs, dog, snake, crikets etc. but we sticked to cow… After the meal i went back to the hotel because i was tired and a littlebit sick from the day before. The rest went in to town for a drink.

The next day arround 8 we left with the bus to Chau Doc, that was on the way to Phnom Penh, we booked a complete tour. First an hour or so busride, the a round trip on the Mekong Delta/River, a tour on an island, and after a tour thu a smell river on an island. We saw bee farms, coconutcandy farms, and you could hold a snake. We drank banana alcohol and saw a fish farm. The fish farm is floating on the river, with big nets hanging in the river in the middle of the farm. The food is produced there by cooking large quantities of vegetable and other stuff and grounding it before feeding it to the fishes. The produced more than 5000 kg of this every day… We then were picked up by a bus again to go to Chau Doc were we arrived arround 22.00. We had a drink and went to bed.