A 5 am wake up call today got things started bright and early. Aspen and I startes by grabbing a bite to eat from a street vendor. It was a chicken sandwich but the meat honestly remained a mystery to me. For some reason, in any foreign country I have a tough time stomaching the meat. So in other words it most likely will be the first and last time I eat one of those sandwiches. But hey, at least I tried it!
After breaky, we wandered the streets until we stumbled into a market that had so much live seafood. Eels, fish, squids, frogs, etc. After that we did more walking and made our way to the mekong delta, for a look at the river. We didnt see too much when we got there so we headed back toward our hotel in search of a beverage because we both we nearly dying of thirst!
This is where it gets interesting. After our experience the first day with the cyclist tours, you think we would have learned. Oh no. While we were searching for a drink we decided to go to the war reminents museum, which was quite aways away and we were already tired and sweaty. Two men offered us rides on their bikes for 50000 dong ( about 2 dollars) and since we were exhausted we took the bait.
They were so nice though we couldnt refuse! So they took us to our destination, which was amazing by the way so much information about the vietnam war, and then waited for us to come out. They said they would take us to a chinese market so we hopped on and went. They told us we could decide a price so we were excited that we got a deal.
Nope, too good to be true, and this time they charged us per hour and included the hour that they waited while we were in the museum! 1 000 000 dong later we had them payed up. That was nearly a 50 dollar tour, whoops. No ass grab this time though!
So here we are at this chinese market and dont exactly know where we are and decide to walk back, thank god we had a map! A nice little stroll for about 45 minutes brings us back to our hotel.
So to finish our night we are sore an tired and think a vietnamese massage sounds like a lovely idea. Well let me tell ya, these massages were nothing like the ones I have had back in canada. First of all we are brought upstairs to a room with four massage tables, two of which are occupied already. They give us towels and tell us to get naked. Aspen grabs the bathroom leaving me in this room with the two folks being rubbed down and my massage lady. She insists I get undressed right there! So she holds the towel up and I strip, I leave my bathing suit bottoms on for some added comfort.
The massage started with the lady walking on my back, right on the table. Then she pulled the towel down, along with my bathing suit bottoms. So much for added protection. I'm laughing inside cause I know aspen is probably freaking out beside me. The massage overall was alright minus feeling violated. She made me roll over and I'm sure everyone got a peep show. And the entire time all the ladies working on their people are chatting and laughing in vietnamese! She finished the massage by takin my hair out of its bun and braiding it. Aspen didnt get her hair done, I guess I got lucky?
Its a different world down here, we grabbed a bite to eat after our massages and a random man in the street came up to aspen and started massaging her again! Two for one deal tonight? Nah, he massaged her till our food came and then told her she had pay him. A bunch of scam artists here! I laughed though cause it was pretty darn funny, aspen getting another full massage right at our table while im enjoying our egg noodle soup. She said it was even better than our first massage though! I bet it was because she didnt feel quite so violated.
Rule number 3: nearly every one is a scam artist, just gotta deal with it!
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