Zoo Day

The whole day was a zoo but I literally started my day at the zoo. The animals looked better treated then I expected. There were lots of families with little children and schools on field trips.  There was also young solders being trained to march with large weapons on their shoulders. (excuse the bad photo, I was shooting from the hip.) However, the solders were about as threatening as the school children.

We left Saigon on an hour bus trip to the boat.  There was a new toll road that Japan helped Vietnam to build that made our journey much smoother and faster.  We took a quick stop at an odd little church where they seemed to believe there is one God in many reincarnations.  Jesus was there with many other deities.

After boarding the boat and settling in, we took a trip to a floating market.  We saw candies being made from coconut and rice.  We drank snake rice wine (which made white lightning taste like fine wine) and I got to pose with a live Burmese Python.  We got back to the boat around sunset.

The boat is very nice and offers everything you could want.  Our room is plenty big enough and the crew is eager to please.  Our captain is from Germany and the rest of the crew is local but they all can speak English.  

I was out like a light after dinner and missed the evening movie.