The boat trip back from Phu Quok to the main land featured most of the same enterpainment we had en(dur/joy)ed on the way over, a Vietnamese Kylie Minogue, I am not familiar enough with Kylie's work to know which song was being covered but familiar enough to recognise the tune. The old "Black is black" number from the 70's complete with gold lame bikini clad boot scooters was pretty scary! All the sets, outfits and video editing style was circa 1984, it made me feel as though in a dream watching a parallel universe's version of ready to roll or solid gold (the dancers were the vietnamese lost twins of the solid gold dancers).
We are now in Can Tho, the biggest city in the Mekong delta, it has a beautiful foreshore, promenade and the kids here (like those all over this part of the country) love to fly their kites. We hired a boat this morning and went to a couple of floating markets where the kalediscope of colours and commerce was so intense it is hard to focus on any one thing or get a clear shot at a photo, it was pandemonium, it was great, we went on up and down canals to fruit farms and dry markets. I had a fabulous time but the markets between Sieam Reap and Battambang are more interesting and vastly larger I think.
Tomorrow we are back to Chau Doc for a few more days then I must head back to Thailand and check out some potential schools for the new school year.
Nikki Jayne.
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