28 Sept Saigon

Well this morning I woke up at 6 am ..had a shower and went to wake lou up for breakfasts.
I went downstairs to withdraw some money from the ATM as its Sunday today and I can't change my travellers checks as the bank is closed and we have already Book for the 3 days tour of the Mekong delta bus cost is $37 u.s plus $5 extra for a room by myself total cost $ 42 u.s for 2 nights and 3 days tour of the Mekong Delta.
Then we went for breakfast at the wet market near our hotel we had B-B-Q- pork balls and pork with noodles it was so crowded and smokey but the food was so good .but I think Danielle's Mum makes it better coz I had it before at their party.after breakfast we went to "Allez Boo again for a drink and use the Wi-Fi but its still not serviceable..so we just sat I went around taking pics of all types of business that is on a bicycles..so here are some of them I hope you enjoy looking at some of them

27 Mui Ne to Saigon

This Morning again as usual I got up at 6 am started to pack my stuff .After packing I went across the road to a small coffee shop to have breakfast of 2 fried eggs with a "Banh Mi"baguette and Vietnamese coffee,when I came back to the resort I walk to the beach ,there I saw some ladies selling fresh water pearls necklaces and bracelets they were very nice so I bought a set for Lim....I hope she likes it..then the man from the resort said we have to cycle to the main bus terminal so we can put our bikes in the Bus before the bus goes around to the branch office of the bus company to pick up the other passengers for Saigon.
The Bus left the terminal on time at 8:30 am as scheduled and we arrive at the branch office a few minutes later we have to wait till 9 am the scheduled departure time from here to Saigon.The journey took nearly 5 hours with a stop for lunch at a road side restaurant where we had "Hu Tiew" or rice noodles with beef and ice coffee,Lou bought some Vietnamese

cookies that looks like our Malaysian "kueh ka pek" that we have during Chinese new year but
unfortunately it doesn't taste the same
we arrived in Saigon "Pham Ngu Lao" district 1 area
at 2 pm we check in to a hotel just diagonally opposite to the Phoenix 74 hotel we stayed
at when we first got here ,room cost $15 u.s per night clean room but old air
conditioner, the top floor so hard work walking up. Lou had a sleep wile I went
to "Allez Boo"
coffee shop to have a coffee and use the Wi -Fi but bad luck their Wi-Fi was out of service.I
went for a walk and met a a group of Phillipino guys playing guitar on the street corner
stall so I sat and had a few beers with them and we had a sing along on the
street corner stall ,that was really fun. That night we had snails,and B-B-Q
Cockles for dinner on the road side stall still on low plastic stools, we saw
some customers eating "Balut"a kind of boiled eggs with the chicken
embryo...lou said he
will try it tomorrow night...I think I will give it a miss.
Later we walk to
the "Ben Than" market to look for more things to eat,then Vy the free lance reporter SMS us a address of
a coffee shop in Dist 1 so we caught a taxi there ..not too far but we got drop
off at the wrong coffee shop but surprisingly the cab driver spoke Cantonese and he ask if we
are going to drink coffee ...he then took us after we paid the fare to another
coffee shop down the road for free.This is a very very trendy coffee shop with lots and lots of
young people who comes here to be seen ..all the girls are so sexily dressed
while the guys are in jeans and T shirt with thongs!!! when Vy arrived with her sister
it began to rain so the staff put up all the umbrellas as we were sitting
outside in the open air...it started drizzling but it was so nice and cool but
then it started pouring .after coffee Lou went back to the hotel while I went to
"Alle Boo"s again
for a beer ..that night I had a really good sleep

26 Sept Mui Ne

We are staying another day at Mui Ne,cos its so Nice and quiet here and we need a good rest,this morning we went to the Mui Ne market to do some shopping for fruits and Lou went for a swim after that...and I went to post some more stories on my cycling web site.That afternoon I had a 1 hour massage on the deckchair by a Vietnamese lady I ask her to use the Thai Boxing Oil on my legs as It was still sore from cycling . That afternoon we clean our bikes, ready for transporting it on the bus to Saigon tomorrow
That Night we had dinner at a seafood restaurant near our resort we had fried whole baby calamari wrap in rice paper, B-B-Q Scallops and B-B-Q Prawns.
after dinner we were tired so we went to bed early