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Read more...Well, we're back from the Mekong Delta group tour, it was very nice, we met some very nice people from all over the world (Australia, New-Zealand, Austria, China, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Japan), everyone was very friendly and we had a great time. It was a great way of closing our trip.
This morning we went to see the floating market, it was quite different from what I had imagined, I thought there would be lots of small boats full of fruit, but instead there were lots of big boats selling all sort of stuff, and each boat had a long bamboo pole on which they would stick the stuff they are selling so people around will know what they are selling.
Here are some photos of the boats:
Today we went to the Mokong Delta, which is the region where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries.
We took a boat trip to one of the islands, where we visited a few villages, to one of these villages we reached by horse:
Today, we went on a group tour to the Cao-Dai temple and the Cu-Chi tunnels.
During the three hour drive, I finished Monkey Island 2 and started Maniac Mansion.
On the way to the Cao-Dai temple we stopped at a place where they make all sorts of boxes, vases and stuff. In these photos you can see them adding patterns to the items using egg shells and broken sea shells:
This morning, we went for a walk around the city, and on the way there we saw a funeral:
We're now back in Saigon, after a five hour bus ride which passed rather quickly (I played Monkey Island 2 for about four hours... long live ScummVM).
Well, we have tonight and tomorrow for some extreme shopping so we're going to check out the city.
Wow, time flies when you're having fun, I can't believe it's already day 18...
I'm writing this post from this laptop (same as yesterday):
I've been playing with it for a while now (blogging, uploading photos, emails, etc...), and I have to say that I'm now sure that 1280x800 resolution for a 15" monitor is a real waste of space (unless you've got really bad eye sight), and I think the Dell D630's 1440x900 on a 14.1" monitor will be perfect for me.
Read more...Today we took a bus from Da-Lat to Mui-Ne, and now we're at a hotel/resort called "Little Mui-Ne Cottages", it's very nice here, it sits directly on the beach and we have ocean view from our room.
I'm writing this post on the hotel's Dell Inspiron 700m, it's a 12.1" laptop, it's cute but a little too small, and the reflective screen is one of the most annoying things I have ever worked with, it does look quite sharp, but it's hard to see anything with all of the reflections from the sun (I'm under a roof, but there's sun coming in from the outside).
Read more...(I'm posting this on Day 17, since only now I have decent internet, so read as if it's yesterday).
Today we went with our guide Vui, who has a Hebrew sticker on the back of his car (left by one of his other tourists):
