I'm now in the back of a bus and I have another 2 hours until we reach a town that is really close to the Cambodian border, it's been on and off the bus for the past two days, we get off the bus then we get into a boat and then we get off the boat and into a canoe, from the canoe we got on bicycles, hopped of the back of motorbikes we have done it all, but our every minute is carefully organised, and there is no time to just stop meet the locals and absorb everything that were seeing, I miss the Unicorn I wish we had more time so we could of ridden all the way down to the south.
Yesterday was our first day down in to the Delta and we visited some small islands that form the delta we got to see how the local people make coconut oil and coconut candy, we spent a lot of time on boats and canoes, we had about 5 hours on the bus yesterday and the roads are pretty shonky, every few hundred meters we have to cross over a bridge and there is a huge bump in the road when you get on the bridge and then a huge bump when you get off, me and Daniel are sitting right at the back of the bus and we have been head butting the roof quite abit even now im holding on to the laptop because were getting air born, I even tried sleeping on the bus yesterday I would get a few minutes sleep before flying through the air, so I gave up on sleeping. Last nights accommodation was a local home stay, so we got to the main town where the rest of the group stayed in hotels and me and Daniel along with a young couple from Singapore got on the back of some motorbikes and got out of the city and followed a small river and we had our small huts right on the edge of the river, honestly the home say was pretty lame, I remember doing a home stay when I was in Peru, and I stayed with a really old family just a husband and wife and instead of paying them money we bought them bags of rice and fruit, it was an amazing homestay I slept on a bed made of straw and I ate dinner with the old couple and they took me out to help in the field and see the village, but this home stay was nothing like that we didn't even stay in some one's home it was more like a row of bungalows on the river's edge and there was a family but they just cooked us some food and we didn't even get introduced to the or eat together but I enjoyed lying down next to the river and I could hear the frogs and birds and insects, it was a nice change from all the bland hotel rooms, we got up at 6am and got a piece of bread and jam for breakfast and got on the back of some motorbikes back into town from here we meet the rest of the group and we were now on a boat heading towards the largest floating market in Vietnam, now I was expecting lots of small boats and people all over the water buying and selling all kinds of things but… there was lots of huge boats filled with pineapples and it was more of a trading dock than a market there was lots of diesel exhaust fumes to clear up the sinus, I was sitting on the back of the boat and just thinking and last night we gave our passports to the homestay family and Daniel picked them up in the morning but I don't remember putting it in my bag, so sure enough Daniel had put my passport on the bed thinking I had seen it but i left without it, so there we go there is nothing like a bit of excitement to get you through the day, Daniel told the tour guide that my passport was left at the home stay so he called them and said that they would call him back, they called back but these Vietnamese are very unclear when they speak to you I asked if they had my passport and he would say that they are looking for It and would bring it to him, later I would ask about it and he would say they are going to call him I couldn't understand if they found it or If they are looking for it so four hours later we stopped for lunch and made our way back to the bus and now I was going to find out did they find my passport or do I have to go back to Saigon to get a new one issued and miss out on Cambodia, but sure enough there is was the guide had it and, and this was a skittles moments I've got a pack of skittles with me and whenever I've had a real memorable day a treat myself to a few skittles, so anyway we just visited a crocodile far and I found a café with Wi-Fi so I called mum on Skype and it was also tabs birthday and the whole family was there, I got to say happy birthday to tab, and Dominic was a little bit sick I pray he gets better, well its getting dark now and I can't really see the keyboard anymore so ill wrap it up, I've got a 8 hour boat ride up the Mekong river tomorrow and should arrive in Phenom Penh late tomorrow afternoon.