MissTtravels

Day 4

Not a great deal to report.

Woke up listening to roosters crow in our home stay house. Just an advanced form of tent, really. No air-con. Mosquito nets over the beds. A pretty place in the jungle.

We had a substantial breakfast before walking out to meet our transport, and started our 3-hour ride back into Saigon.

The Mekong Delta seems to the garden of Vietnam. Rice and coconuts grow everywhere, and there are flowers everywhere.

On the way we stopped at a restaurant stop, with a great fishpond.

Upon reaching Saigon, we briefly visited the old French Quarter. We saw the Post Office, the Opera House and the cathedral. Unexceptional 19th century buildings that could be anywhere.

Of some interest in that area is the building the helicopter landed on to evacuate Americans in 1975. It is the yellow building in the picture below.

In the afternoon we went back to the Bin Trang market (more fabric purchases) and then did our washing.

In the evening went out with an English couple from our tour. Really beautiful vegetarian place called the Chay Garden.

I was amused by some little plastic stools I saw in the city today.