We have just spent the last 2 days onboard a lazy river boat through the Mekong Delta to Phnom Pehn. The Mekong Delta is a waterway with numerous rivers, canals, and streams. It is by far the most interesting way to cross borders to Vietnam. Along the Mekong Delta we find boats of all shapes and sizes, houses on stilts and the floating variety, resturants and most famously markets. We leave HCMC early morning and within an hour we are surrounded by rice paddy fields. We board a small motor boat and are taken to the floating market, here sellers indicate the produce they sell by hanging it from a pole and sell their goods and ridiculously cheap prices. The boat then takes us through a maze of shallow canals of which we get stuck in a dozen times. We visit a local house where the family are well known in the area for their coconut candy, this is the first chocolate we have tasted since being here and stock up! We stop for lunch where me and Tom share an Elephant fish, this fish is only found in the Mekong River, its off putting as it is placed infront of us eyeballs and all to just rip apart. That evening we stop in Chau Doc in a floating hotel, the children here are so friendly and love tourists. They are the friendliest people we have come across so far and when we walk past they get out of their chairs to greet us and say hello. They don't pester us to buy things and they don't beg, they simply want to say hello and practise their English.

The following day its another early start and we board the boat to Cambodia at 7am. We stop by in the village of Cham, this is a muslim community and we meet locals and again the children love talking to us. By 12pm we reach the border and we take our first steps in Cambodia. If only it was that easy... it takes over an hour to get our Visa sorted and then we still need to travel a further 2.5 hours by bus to Phnom Pehn, the capital of Cambodia. The ride is bumpy and on thin dusty roads as the main road has collapsed into the river. Its a very hot, uncomfortable journey but I soon fall asleep, the next time I open my eyes I am in Phnom Pehn.