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The Mekong was everything I expected. After leaving our home
stay we cruised around the river for about 2 hours, we visited floating markets,
a fruit orchard and some local factories. They call them ‘factories’ but they
are more like people’s homes. One was making fish sauce – very stinky,
another rice paper. The processes here are so incredibly time consuming and
labour intensive. The last one we stopped at was making local sweets, this was
my favourite. They even made popcorn from rice, yum, yum. Of course Ian somehow
found the local moonshine, AKA ‘snake wine’. Basically a huge jar of fermenting
snakes yuk… At this stage he appears not to have suffered any lingering effects
from drinking it....
After leaving the Mekong Delta we headed back to Ho Chi Minh
where we spent the afternoon wondering around. It’s nearly time for dinner then
a shower. I haven’t been able to have one for 2 days and I wasn’t using the
bucket and river water. No point having one before dinner as you get filthy as
soon as you walk out onto the street. Tomorrow we have a 7 hours journey to
Dalat.
