This day we woke up at 6’o clock in the morning. We met our boat-guide in front of our resort. He explained to us the safety instructions for the trip, we were not allowed to swim in the river or to put our hands in the water during the ride. So we started our tour, when we arrived at the floating markets the salesmen weren’t finish getting their goods on the ships. After ten or fifteen minutes driving through the busy men building up their stores. We’ve got the experience of trading goods and joking around with salesmen from the floating-market.

Their boats were packed with fruits, vegetables, clothes, food and different materials. It looked like a huge warehouse on the water. We bought some fresh watermelon. At the next boat we bought some ice tea. It was amazing to sit half-naked in the sun eat watermelon and drink Ice-Tea while driving on the river with an ancient long boat.

 

The next stop was an old rice noodle farm, where we got to know the steps of producing rice noodles. In this area was a black coloured bird which repeated funny words we said, so we stood in front of the cage and talked to the bird for a long time. There were other domestic animals like guinea pigs as well. We had heaps of fun and enjoyed our fresh baobab ice-tea (Affenbrotbaum-Tee). It is said that this tea helps against diary and other deseases and I think it worked.

Back on the boat I asked our guide if it would be possible to control the boat for some time. He agreed and I could take the control of the boat, this one was a bit more heavy to control than the one from Eahr. After my turn it was Leos turn, he did a quite good job. I decided to start my motorboat-licence when I would be back in Germany.

When we returned at our resort, we decided to rent some bikes and explore this area. We started to cycle together but lost each other quite fast so we both had our own cycling experiences. The streets were crowded with cars, motorbikes and bicycles. I felt horrible on the street cycling along the way. Nobody cared about cyclist, they always honked. It is normal to honk in Vietnam to communicate with others, sometimes it is quite hard to understand why someone is honking, but I’ve never seen an accident during the whole time I’ve been there.

Back home we relaxed in the hammocks which were build up on the balcony in front of the river. We had a nice view and really enjoyed our last hours in Vietnam.

Our host ordered us some tickets for the bus. When we arrived at the “bus  stop”. There was no bus coming, tthirty minutes before our bus to Saigon would leave we decided to stop a cab and take a cab to the bus. It was quite close and we almost missed the bus to Saigon, but luckily we didn’t. At the airport we slept around 4 hours till our flight departed to Bangkok.