We thought that today was super fun. The first thing we did today was get out of bed thinking that today might be some boring old road trip to some old fish farm at the outskirts of ho chi minh. How wrong we were. At first the bus ride was kinda boring... 2hours of the endless bus ride. But our group didn’t really felt the time difference. Tania was sleeping most of the time. Xinyi and Genevieve the same. Nicholas was thinking of his new book he was about the publish (best seller) and Alex was taking pictures of us sleeping. Except Nicholas.
When we arrived at the side of the road to go down to see the padi fields, we were wondering why we stopped there thinking it was a toilet break. But to our surprise we crossed the road to go check out the padi fields. Next we arrived at our next destination, the Mekong River Delta. We met our tour guide. He was pretty tanned, he spoke pretty fluent English (better than some of us) except Nicholas and Alexander Ivan Lim Wei Sheng (A.I.L.W.S) we had a windy bumpy (and fun) ride on the way to one of the four islands on the side of Mekong delta.
We eventually got to the island. Sweaty backs and sticky shirts we went off the boats with high spirits. Expecting a hero’s welcome like the one we got at the destination stop the day before. We weren’t let down. The locals living near the Mekong river welcomed us with opened arms with things to sell. Friendly and warm, we felt like we’re at home. The guide introduced us to a place to sit down and enjoy a cup of honey tea =D. Our guide then told us that we can hold a beehive and we did! We then sat back down to talk and drink our tea. He then brought out a python for us to carry. Alex carried the beehive which we thought was pretty cool. Surprising how none of the bees came and stung ( Vietnamese bees are friendly too ). Next we walked to the hut next to it. At first we were shocked to see a Vietnamese lady ( maybe in her 40s) with a huge and tanned masculine figure beside a floor filled with coconuts. We observed a spear installed onto the ground. We watched as she broke the rock solid coconut into perfect halves and a floor filled with coconuts. She then showed us the technique of making coconut candies (Nicholas ate most of it... without paying) we took a short stroll along the riverside entering our miniature boats (aka sampan) into the smalls canals and reached our boat and yeah.(Alex showed us his huge bulky muscles.) his boat was the fastest I think.(Nicholas’s boat sank)
We took another long gruelling trip back to the city and shopped at the all time famous Ben Thanh market. The ladies immediately went finding for accessories to themselves. Xinyi bought a Jason-Mraz styled cap (which was pretty expensive). Alex and Nicholas bought some lanterns. Although Emily was not in our group she was there with us for our shopping. The girls bought some cute little handmade dolls. Quite a lot of items considering the 90 minutes time limit. We were kind of late considering the bargaining we did in between. We were fined 50cents each (6k dong ) Xinyi paid 60k.
We made a final roadtrip back to the city. We had a quick shower before heading to the water puppet show. We were surprised at first when our tour guide, Mr Hou mentioned water puppets. We didn’t take him seriously at first, was kind of shocked when we entered the cinema with a staged filled with water. Although we did not understand a word the puppeteers were saying we enjoyed the show tremendously.
After the show, we went off for dinner. We ate a lot of really good food... like spring rolls, and a free flow of white rice!! But anyways, we all had a lot of fun and we were glad that we ate there because the food was really good and it was worth it waiting till 8:30(Vietnam time) to eat.
After that, we went back home to the hotel to shower, relax and sleep! So now we are blogging with all of our group members and we are all tired...and WE ALL CAN’T WAIT TO BATHE!!!!!!
This is our group signing off,
Alexander Ivan Lim Wei Sheng (3 Integrity)
Nicholas Kang of the Jay Hung (3 Integrity)
Lee Xin Yi (3 Integrity)
Esther Ng Shi Hui (3 Integrity)
Genevieve Ng HuiHui (3 Integrity)
Tania Tan Ruiying (3 Integrity)
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