Mekong Delta

Early the next morning we're sitting in STA waiting for our bus with our cheese baguettes on our laps. When the bus does pick us up theres a lot of phaff about whether we're on the 2 day or 3 day trip and whether we're staying on the boat overnight. The whole busload seems to be on the same wavelength but the guides are clueless. Again it takes forever to pick everyone up, trudging through roads packed with mopeds. Eventually we're off, we get to the river and the boat takes us to a little island for our lunch, we get to try some Vietnamese lychees. We hop back on the boat and head up the river visiting the vestiges of the floating market- not much left at this time of day, and passing cargo boats loaded with sand to use for building. The boat drops us in Can Tho and the bus takes us to our hotel. We head out and explore the city as far as a nice restaurant, then play bananagrams and drink beer in our room. A mini-bus takes us to the ferry port where we have to carry our bags on to the boat and get on a different minibus on the other side. The logistics of getting enough small boats for us all and our bags seems to baffle our guides. We actually have to get on and off ours a couple of times while they decide which end to load our bags into. We're taken to a fish farm then a local tribe's village, our boat lands us in Chau Doc where we get our Cambodian Visas and cross the border on foot, getting on a bigger boat with deckchairs on the deck for a while, getting off to get our entry stamp a little further up river, changing boat again, before getting on a bus which takes us to Phnom Penh. This option felt a little rushed and I'd recommend anyone to go for the 3 day option or just get the bus across the border.