Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Vietnam Trip 6th Dec 2006 - Day 3

6/12/06 (Wed)
Yawnz!!! Woke up again at 6am.. Argh.. So early.. Had to rush down to the recep to pay for the hotel bills and the train tickets.. We checked out the hotel and left out luggage at the hotel.. After which, we once again gobbled down our breakfast and rushed to Kim's Travel for the day tour to Mekong Delta.. It was a 6 hrs boat trip!!! There's nothing much to see at the Mekong Delta.. With nothing to do, we self entertained ourselves with the camera!

Our bums hurt and the weather's quite warm.. I tink it cant compare to Halong Bay. And we are thinking where we can bathe after this!! The typhoon destroyed some houses along the Mekong.. So we didn't manage to have our bicycle ride.. We visited the Unicorn Island, and a coconut candy factory.. Got 6 pkts of coconut candy for frenz in HN.. When the tourguide said that we can visit a small market at the town while waiting for the bus, we didn't expect that the market is really a MARKET!! Where the locals buy their food stuff.. Well, at least, XY got her lock (and in any case, she then tried the lock and found out that the key is universal!! hahaha.. Faint lor!!)

Back at the city, we went to Remember Hotel where the koreans stayed to pass a birthday card (eh.. actually it's a piece of note and we wrote birthday wishes for her) to Hye Yun.. Surprise!!! We saw Se Jin at the recep and they just came back from their golf!! Wah!! Such a coincidence!! We din expect to see them again.. But Hye Yun is not back yet.. So we saw the other 2 fellows again!! wow.. happy to meet them again.. Then mich and me had an evil thought!! Ding Ding!! We had no place to take a shower and were wondering if we could borrow their hotel room to bathe!! Hee hee.. So i asked Se Jin, he graciously agreed to lend us their room!! So the next person to ask is the recep.. Cuz it's quite strict in VN that other than guests at the hotel, no one else is not allowed in the room! But in the end, the recep still reluctantly agreed to let us go into the room!! Wah!! Fantastic!! We immediately went back to our hotel to get our luggage and we went back to their hotel.. We climbed the stairs up to the 5th floor!! A killer.. Mun Soo was packing their room and then he gentlemenly left us on our own to bathe.. Before he left the room, he told us to be fast cuz he's very hungry.. hee hee.. I was down in 15 mins.. And by 7.30pm, we were out for dinner!! We carried our luggages to a kebab restaurant down the street.. The kebab is so nicez!! Mun Soo ordered 2 bottles of Tiger cuz he said the fruit juice opp is cheap and nice.. (The beer in VN is the cheapest drink in any case).. Here, we had another free dinner.. When we are walking to the fruit stall, they helped us with the luggage.. So nice of them.. But we felt so bad cuz our bags are real heavy.. We ordered some fruit juices.. Each glass is only 6000 VND (60 cents).. So i immediately pay for it before Mun soo takes out his wallet.. hahaha.. cuz i am nearer to the owner.. We could see that they were really very tired.. Guess it's cuz we all slept late the other nite.. and they woke up at 5am.. And we had some sleep on the boat whereas they were playing golf for the whole day.. WE left early for the train station.. Mun Soo was very nice, he helped us to hail a cab and we bade our goodbye once again! Hope to see them again.. Either in Korea or in Singapore..

I am so excited at the train station!! It's a first time experience for both me and XY.. So both of us are super excited abt it.. Never mind that it's gonna be a 29 hours train ride...

And we are already sympathising with the person who is going to share the cabin with us, hopefully he/she will not go crazy!!! hahaha.. While waiting for the train, I played with a Vnese little girl.. She is so CUTE!!! I took a lot of pics of her.. Her grandmother was so nice, she brought her up to the train and changed her into an Ao Dai, she looked so pretty in it!

We board the train and we chose our beds.. Then in came an UNCLE!!! OOhh.. He's our roommate!! ahh.. hahaha.. But his family or friends who were sending him off were laughing that he's gonna share the cabin with 3 ladies.. Hmm.. Hopefully we will have a nice train trip.. We saw him making his bed and bringing out his face towel, tucking his luggage under the bed.. He looked like a seasoned traveller and a perfectionist.. Just looking at his bed, ours looked horrible!! hee.. but who cares!!? At night, I couldn't sleep cuz i was so afraid.. I think it's raining heavily outside and the rain sounds so scary.. I am worried that accident might happen.. SO whilst they are sleeping so soundly, i was awake.. So sad..

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