20th October 2009 - 21st October 2009:

We decided that we would do a bit of multi-tasking (Sean being a man struggled with this!!) by turning our boat trip to the Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam into our transportation to Cambodia. We set off at 8am by bus with our tour guide whose name was Tom - but we could call him Tom Cruise. He explained to us that as long as we were happy he would be happy and that he would treat us like his own family which resulted in the call of 'My Family, My Family….' every time he wanted us to follow him.

When we reached our boat, we took an hour's trip along the river and went to visit some local people making arts & crafts. We also saw them making candy from the juice of coconuts and then using rice grains to make rice crackers, rice crispies and everything else ricey!!

After our trip to the local villages we took a further boat trip up the river where we were served lunch and 'treated' to a musical performance from some local singers. Vietnamese people are very nasal when speaking and this seems to be exaggerated ten-fold when singing.

Words cannot truly describe the performance but we will give it ago - TERRIBLE, CATS CHOROUS, WORSE THAN JEDWARD ON X-FACTOR, AWFUL. The first lady singer (we use the word loosely) came out and proceeded to murder this song, which was quickly followed by a male singer almost as terrible. However nothing could beat the grand finale, the first lady sadly coming back out again with her equally vocally challenged friend to sing us a duet - it was so bad that at one point it looked as though that tiny vein in Sean's temple was about to explode!!!

The following morning we were woken up early and taken to some small rowing boats that brought us to some of the floating houses on the Mekong River. Whilst there we were shown a house which farms fish and at any one time has up to 100,000 fish beneath the house - we were given fish food to throw into a hole in the floor and literally hundreds of fish would jump up trying to grab the food. The locals then trade these fish with other locals for different types of goods or sell them to the mainland. Unfortunately we did not get any pictures of this as we thought we had left our camera behind only to realise it was in our bag the whole time. Ooooops!!!!!

After our trip to the local houses, we were transferred to our main boat which was due to take us to Cambodia. It was due to be another terrible journey on a small wooden barge boat which was scheduled to take over six hours to reach Cambodia - god I wish we could afford to fly!!!