The woman in reception opens the shutters fir me and passes me to another Woman (Lon), my guide for the morning. We walk to the dock and I find it's just going to be the two of us in her little boat. The sun is just coming up.

We are meant to go straight to the floating market, but because of low water levels (or something) we start with a wander around the backwaters and canals. It reminds me a lot of the film 'Monsters', when they are cruising down the Amazon.

I've never been interested in domestic life before, but the boat ride this morning makes me think it's what I want when I get back. Someone recently told me that when a man decides he wants to be married he usually finds someone and is married within on year-maybe I’ll find out when I get home?

There's a lot of tourist boats heading to the market when we make our way there, mostly passenger ferries for 20+ people instead of the tiny boat I'm in. Suckers. It's amazing how the market works. The sellers have flag poles with samples of what they are selling tied to it.

Before we leave we stop for noodle Soup. Being Mekong Delta Noodle Soup one of the main ingredients is the Mekong - how could that possibly end badly.

The ride back is slow and hot now the sun is up. Some of the tourists going the other way take my picture. We're back on land by 09:30 and I head to my guest house to look at bus times back to Saigon.

NB: I'm uploading my pictures to Picasa at the moment since I can't do it to facebook. Though I manage to do a few before connection dies.

Spend afternoon asleep, reading, browsing net and watching movies (Aliens in the Attic, Die Hard 2) - still not feeling great and think I have hay fever. Going to try the run to Dalat tomorrow instead. Pop out for dinner (beef fried noodles, hot lemon tea, cookies and a large bottle of sarsi flavoured fizzy drink).

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