It is 9 pm here, and I've just got back to our overnight hotel in Chau Doc after eating with Biff from Texas and Ling from Hanoi.
Today's trip has been long and very interesting and I'm not going to do it justice here. It has been a tiring day and we need to start again at 6:30.
Suffice to say that the Mekong Delta area is a really fascinating place, with the land very fertile and the huge and complicated delta network a kind of water-borne version of a normal working and market city, with all sorts of goods being transported and traded from boat-to-boat, and most of the buildings standing on stilts in the water.
I've now added a couple of pictures just to give an impression of the scale of the Mekong here, and some of the narrower passages we can take as shortcuts.
By the way the HK nurses reappeared and joined us for the first part of today's trip; so it was good to see some familiar faces.
Tomorrow a dwindling band of us will continue our Mekong tour, finishing with a border crossing to Cambodia and a 1 hour trip to Phnom Penh arriving about 6 pm.
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