Anyone want to sail down a river in the rain? Oh we do!

The weather is absolutely gorgeous upon landing in saigon, where are all the storms the news was talking of?  Surely they must have been exagerating.  In that case why don't we book a two day trip down the Makong river and get the most out of our trip here.  Ignore the fact we haven't slept a full night sleep in several days and I have managed to catch a common cold in the middle of this humid and hot environment.  One more adventure, let's go for it!

We book the tour around 3pm and by 6pm when we go out for dinner it is absolutely pouring.  Thunder and lightening abound.  A hasty decision is made to eat inside the hotel.  But the nexy day appears to have seen the last of the bad weather and is sunny and bright.  We embark on a four hour car ride with the most politically charged tour guide we have run across yet.  We are not sure if we can believe all of his conspiracy theories but apparently he spent four years in a political reeducation camp in his twenties since je decided to go AWOL from the army.  Suffice to say he yielded many interesting stories of corruption inside the government, some of which might actually be true.

We just arrive at the boat dock and we see a huge front coming in, sure enough about ten feet from the dock the skies let loose and don't stop the entire day.  From motorized boat, to rowboat, mini-bus and even ferry we were on all kinds of fun transportation today. 

The highlight of the day?  While on a fifteen minute ferry ride I received a marriage proposal from an adorable 22 year old local girl.  Not surprisingly westerners are fairly prized catches so even a bloke like me should be able to get a date.  Alas I turned her down to get back into our mini-bus and over to the hotel.

Otherwise the day with small excursions to the shore to visit a brick factory, a cocunut candy factory and finally rice cake factory.  Truly sanitary conditions (umm sure) and yet ISO 9001 certified, go figure. 

At this point it is absolutely storming at the hotel so just chilling to see what we are going to do tomorrow.

Take care