Chau Doc and off to Cambodia
Trip Start
Jun 10, 2009
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Trip End
Jan 07, 2010
Chau Doc, Vietnam
Thursday, July 30, 2009
We went to Coconut island where they make coconut candy. We went to another island where they make Honey Tea and Dave and Sedge both held a massive snake.
We then swapped buses for a 5 hour journey to Chau Doc, which is near the border with Cambodia. We arrived safely and checked into the Vinh Phouc Hotel. That evening we met a cyclo rider outside our GH and he took us to a restaurant along the river.
The next day we went to the market and wandered up the river and stopped and where we thought we had been the previous night, but it turned out to be a random local's guest house, where they spoke little English, we managed to get by with the extensive Vietnamese vocabularly we'd aquired along the way. :-D We had two beers in their back garden balocony looking over a pond. The hevens decided to open and it chucked it down for about an hour.
We figured that we couldn't stay there forever, so donned our "Mua" jackets (rain in vietnamese) and headed out. The rain didn't last long and we stopped to dry out at a little food establishment, where we met a really friendly Vietnamese guy, who was a airplane mechanic in the war.
Later that evening we decided to go for dinner at one of the street stalls near our guest house. They spoke little English and the menu was impossible to translate, so a kind lady took Sedge to the "kitchen" (A few pots and pans and a BBQ/burner on tables on the pavement) so Sedge could point out what we wanted. This was fine, but then we figured out we'd never learned the Vietnamese word for Rice..... so repeatedly saying Rice just wasn't working... the kind lady just repeated Rai...Rii....rie??? at us.... in the end it all worked out and we had another lovely dinner with the locals. :-D
After dinner we met our Cyclo driver rider again who recommended a bar about 1km from where we staying. It turned out to be a strangely set 80's style cocktail bar, with lots of decorative lights. We ordered our second cocktail then realised that it had started to rain and our cyclo riders where waiting for us, looking out the window we could see one of them putting on his "mua" jacket. We decided to invite them both in for a drink, he said he'd taken loads of people there, but never been inside, so it was really nice to have a drink with them out of the rain.
The next day we had to head to Phnom Penn - Cambodia so hit the hay.
