First off I want to give a big shout out to my friend Sharrese for accepting my facetime call at about 5am and waking from her slumber to chat with Aspen and I and get a little taste of Ho Chi Minh! Hope you Mexico trip is going fantastic! As for Kevyn, you let us down bud!
Our bus ride to Rach Gia was interesting to say the least. The bus we hopped onto at the station was roomy and so comfy, not to mention we snagged the very front of the bus with the most leg room. I got all settled in almost snoozing when the bus pulled over and we learned we were switching to another bus, with a lot less leg room. I think the entire 7 hour bus ride I maybe got 1 hour of sleep, but that was alright because I was slightly worried how we were about to find our way from the bus stop to the boat dock. The bus drive told us we would get to the boat dock but failed to mention how. Luckly a whole family on vacation took us under their wing and informed us we had to catch a free van ride to the boat dock, no one told us this on the bus though! They were a very friendly family and let us share a van with them. It was a very mixed family, some from Taiwan, India, and Vietnam. The only language universal among them was English, so that made communicating with them very easy.
While we were waiting for the boat, our adopted family let us know they had a van waiting on the island for them and that we could share it with them too! Such nice people here. As for on the boat I made another friend too! Aspen doesn't think she counts as a friend because we might never talk again but I count it for sure! Her name was Yo (I'm not certain about spelling but thats how it sounded) and we chatted about traveling and what not. She was telling me we are lucky to be Canadian because it's easy for us to get visas for other countries. She said she has a hard time being Vietnamese and trying to get a visa, but she hopes to travel one day!
We got to the island and ended up finding our hotel very easy. Wow. Our hotel was once again 5 dollars a night but I dont think it can fall under the catigory of hotel. It was a grass hut with walls that didn't even reach the roof and a sliding door that had left huge cracks between the wall and itself, perfect for little critters to wander in.
We wandered around town for a bit and ended up having the opportunity to meet Phu Quoc's famous Tony. Or so he claimed. Apparently Aspen caught him on her video camera when she was taking one of the town. He became famous for helping travelers that were short of cash get off the island, and apparently so famous he was in the Lonely Planet travel books but asked to be removed because he recieved so many phone calls a day about it. Of course I didn't miss a opportunity for a photo with the famous Tony!
After exploring town we went to the beach and grabbed some food and drinks. I got a plate of fruit but ended up sharing most of it with a local boy that was hanging out at our table entertaining us. He claimed to be 9 but that was highly unlikely considering he was like a foot tall and so tiny. But cute none the less. We also met a couple from Sidney, Australia and they told us Cambodia is awesome and said we would love it. Can't wait to go there now!
So back to critters, wow did one wander in, not even a small one either. The toilette here has to be filled manually with water before you can flush so I had just used the bathroom and was filling the top with water when all of a sudden the mother of giant spiders scurries up the wall right in front of my face. Luckly I didn't drop the porclin lid of the toilette as I screamed and darted from the room. Aspen went into the bathroom to investigate my story of the king kong size spider and agreed it would eat us in our sleep if we didn't kill it. This began a huge ordeal of squishing it. Aspen turned out to be a bigger man than I am and squished it with her shoe. We weren't sure at first she got it but the evidence was on the bottom of her shoe. Thank God.
The spider hunt made us famished so we headed to the local night market for some grub. We got a plate of seafood and noodles for 60 000 dong (less than 2 dollars :)). It was the most delish meal ever!
We were slightly leary about going back to the hut in fear that there would be a bunch of giant spiders waitng to avenge the death of the one we squished but our room was free of any bugs. Although all night we were paranoid something would crawl into our bed with us and we both had dreams about bugs and snakes. But on the bright side we switched hotels to a very nice, clean, bug free hotel for the next few days. Time for a trek in the forest on the island, adios amigos!
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