Goodbye of Betsy

The last day with Betsy was not a nice road. Just highway but it needed to be done to make Ho Chi Minh city. Ho Chi Minh city also known as Saigon is big and crowded. It's the only city in Vietnam that really gives you the feeling of being big or better said massive although it has only 7 million inhabitants.

After more than 2500 km it was time to change transportation again. For selling Betsy we called the guys where we bought it from and of course it went as smooth (read as totally not) as when we picked Betsy up in Hanoi. But 10 phone calls and 3 times discussion about the price and refund later we successfully sold Betsy.

Helpless without our bike we booked some tours to see the surroundings of Saigon. We went to the famous cu chi tunnels which were used during the American war as hiding place. The Vietnamese did an impressive job with making whole villages underground. The tunnels being so small that western people can not enter them. To give the tourist (like us) an impression they made a special tourist tunnel and some kind of small theme park around it. Here you can see everything about life in that period. We made it to through the 150 meter tourist tunnel and where soaked. It's soooo warm in the tunnel you can't imagine.

To end our Vietnam experience we went for a 3 day tour to the Mekong delta in the south of Vietnam which will end in Cambodia. This trip turned out to be a rush through the delta. We saw a lot of places we could not really link with the delta. They only thing we really learned is about the “happy room”. Every tour guide we met proudly told about the room where you go stressed in and come happy out: The restroom hahahaha. (Most of time it was only the guide that was laughing which made it actually a bit funny)

We also visited the biggest floating market of the Mekong Delta. It was nice to see how Vietnamese people do the trading on the water. Everyone comes with his boat and hangs outside what the offer for sale on a long stick, so everyone can see it. It was mostly pineapple, potato, salad and dragon fruit.

Our last morning in Vietnam was long, waking up at 5:30 to hop on a boat to Cambodia. With some short stops at a fish farm and a minority village, we arrived at 10 at the border which we crossed over water. After both border offices and a new visa we are heading to Phnom Penh by bus.