Can Tho

Can Tho is the biggest town/ city of the Mekong Delta.

At 7:00 in the morning I got up (in Phu Quoc) and got a baguette from the little restaurant at our hotel called The Beach Club. The Beach Club was not like an American beach club but it was nice and homey. We walked out with our luggage to a taxi and drove to a local slow boat dock and walked out the 1/2 mile pier to where the water got deeper and the boat could park. I was really tired and surprised that the boat that we were going to be on was wooden and was literally  a "local" boat. People were smoking left and right and it was crowded. Mom and I choose to sit up on the top of the boat which was cooler and not as smelly! There was a lot of fiber glass up on the top deck--so I got a lot of cuts on my bum! I was tired from waking up at 7 and I slept the whole time till we got to a town next to Cambodia called Ha Tien.

We got a taxi ride to the bus station and caught a few hour bus ride on a big taxi bus thing to Rach Gia. "The driver was crazy and honked 1000 times" but mom gave me a head rub and it was all good. We got to the next bus station in a bit bigger city and played soccer for we had 1 hour till the bus picked us up. We started to pick up a game of soccer but a cop was sitting there and made a big deal about not letting us play because he thought we were drunk or something. (I thought they liked soccer?)

The bus arrived and it was just like the last one. It said Can Tho on the back so we knew it was ours. We got on to the bus and got our seats. They were split according to the woman at the desk but she said we could get them together. We ended up doing just that and that was ok. The bus driver was crazy again and we had to endure honks. We saw a lot of lights on the side of the road for Tet--Chinese new year. The trip was bad but we got to the Can Tho bus station and caught yet another taxi to go to our final destination at our hotel. I was down for the count…sleep wise.

The next day we woke up and went to a restaurant called HOP PHO! and got a smoothie and then went to look for a place to rent a motor bike and finally found one and rented a Honda Dream ll (which is a terrible bike. We used that for 24 hours and got a new one that was much better.) We explored around till we found an astroturf feild(s) and got a game going and played till we got tired and got smoothies at the GOAL CAFE! (which were really good!!)

Mom and dad covered the last few days of Can Tho so I will stop for now (and I really want to play a new game I found called Corporation inc. online, it is awesome!!) :) JM