Today was a doozer... 260km sitting on a bumpy, windy, sometimes rainy, mostly fun motorbike for over 200kms gives you a "numb bum" - as our guides keeps telling us :)
We woke up wth a dog at our door (who I think knew we were leaving as it kept whimpering - I would whimper if I was the dog too... we are pretty cool people).
Breakfast was beef and an egg served on a sizzling hot plate. With a tea (with condensed milk - Bec always eats the extra condensed milk).
We got off to an early start as we had a lot of k's to kill.
Today we saw coca, chilli plantations, cashu(?) nuts getting cracked out of their shells, rubber trees, baboo hand weaving, and alot of red dust... still getting out of places...
We rode on the Ho Chi Minh trail right up to the Cambodian border and took a happy snap. Luckily we took it quickly as 2 army guys with guns came over and told our guides we cant take photos here. Son told us sometimes they take cameras from tourists that take photos which we were SO glad they didnt as we hadnt had access to a USB yet so ALL our photos were still on the camera. The ride was quite bumpy at times as its all dirt track. We had to weave around trucks, bikes, people, pot holes and avoid the kamakaze (?) bus drivers.
We drove past a guy who had come off his motorbike (about 20 mins later an ambulance came past so hopefully he wasnt waiting that whole time). We also saw an overturned truck that Hai told us must have been carrying too much and fell over from the bumpy road.
Lunch was buffet style at a side of the road restaurant. It was delicious but Son told us we need to eat more rice and less food so we dont get hungry too soon. We were thinking "you're the one who eats the most food"... I also got told off for talking while eating... but I just thought I was doing polite dinner conversation. Vietnamese culture... they dont talk until they have finished their meal, so eat in silence, no chatting between mouthfulls.
260kms later we arrived at our hotel. Nha Nghi Hotel. The shower is awesome (although we had trouble figuring out the hot water so I went downstairs to ask while Bec hid in the closet for when they came back - so they didnt get a surprise), the room is clean, life is good.
We are off to Ho Chi Minh city tomorrow, but for now its a wander around the city to check it all out.
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