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February 28, 2007
Tuesday 27th (Katy)
Today we visited the floating markets. Our boat was small, just wide enough to fit two people side by side, but pretty long. The seats were wooden planks and you couldn't hear yourself think because the engine was so noisy. The floating markets were good though. There were lots of big boats with big bamboo poles sticking out of the top. Hanging on the pole was whatever that boat was selling. All the boats sold some kind of fruit and veg with lots of water melons and tomatoes. In between the big boats lots of little boats were being rowed around.
They stand up on the back of the boat and row it, only facing fowards (the opposite to rowing). These people were obviously shopping and some were filled to the gunwhales with all kinds of fruit and veg.
After the boat trip it was another long bus ride. This time it was to Saigon, but it took over 5 hours. We made it in good time considering we had to stop a few times and change buses on the way.
Conveniently, we were dropped off by the buses just metres away from the hostel we'd booked and within minutes we were in our air conditioned (!!) room. The room even has hot water, the first hot water we've had since Thialand.
Saigon is an interesting city. It's a lot more like Thailand than Cambodia. It's a lot cleaner and more organised. Within an hour of us arriving we'd found our hostel, booked a tour, booked a bus to leave on Friday and put washing in . That would have taken two whole days to complete in Cambodia.
Posted by admins at February 28, 2007 11:39 AM