Day 2: 63 km, Long Xuyen - Can Tho
Day 3: 107km, Can Tho - My Tho
Day 4: 77 km, My Tho - Ho Chi Minh City
We arrived back in Rach Gia and ended up staying for two nights instead of one due to mild stomach poisoning (suspected culprit Valentine's spring rolls). In the end we needed the extra day anyway to catch up on the blog (and sample all the bakery delights that Rach Gia has to offer). Finally on the road we stopped at a riverside restaurant for lunch on the first day and had some friendly yet slightly creepy drunk men hugging and photographing us with their mobiles. We chucked our rice down and got out of there as quick as we could.
Having arrived in Long Xuyen, a fairly large city, we encountered some other cyclists as the Mekong Delta is pretty popular for bikes. But still, the city does not see many tourists and so we felt like animals in a zoo when we sat down in the shopping centre to eat a yoghurt with families gathering at safe distance to look at us. (Or is it just the way we eat yoghurt?).
Cycling to Can Tho we experienced the nicest scenery as the area is quite rural with duckherds, fishermen and people drying tea, fruit and fish by the side of the road. Over the next days the traffic got worse and worse as it became more built up the closer we got to Ho Chi Minh City.
We heard many horror stories about tourists getting ripped off in Vietnam but did not encounter it until one lunch stop where, instead of subtly adding 20 cent (which no doubt happens to us all the time) they tried to charge us ten times the usual price. We got out of the situation with just paying double the price, but it was a disappointing experience as the people seemed nice and were friendly with us.
On the last day we got up extra early so that we would be able to get good accommodation in Ho Chi Minh City but our plan ws ruined because we forgot the mobile at the My Tho Hotel and Kiki cycled back to get it and broke a record (not sure what record) by sprinting the 20km (there and back) to get it in 40mins. The traffic was pretty mental that day but we still made it into the city by lunch time.
eating a crepe with chopsticks
enjoying fabulous christmas decoration
revving the engines with the mopeds
never alone
1 comment:
Hello together,
best ragards from Germany.
your photo are very interested
Lot´s of Love
Lydia
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