It' another day, the 18th, and we are in for a long day today, I had breakfast which was a good idea seeing as I had a late snack on a large Tarantula at market, followed by a large scorpion. The scorpion was quite crunchy, so much so that the shell cut the roof
of my mouth, the spider was hairy, and neither tasted worth a damn.
, not something I would gem
 Generally recommend, but I'm here so if not now, then when?

With that in mind, we left for a visit to an area where people had resorted to living on floating barges of bamboo on the Tonie Sap Lake. On the way there, we got to ride in Ox Carts, pulled by water Buffalo. That's quite the experience.

What surprised me is that these big creatures don't Moooo as you would expect a cow to do, they make this silly little squeek like a small dog with larangitis. Anyway, it was a fun ride,, we arrived at these long boats where you sit in single file, and scoot through this narrow canal waterand out into the lake. The people live on these houses floating on bambo pontoons. Some never leaving the place. One guy I spoke with said he didn't even know how to ride a bicycle!, that seemed ridiculous, but when I looked around, I realised his predicament, if he had ridden a bike, his lungs would have filled with water

Even the school was floating on the lake, the school being supported by the " assembly of God " charities, and the "one child counts program".

The school being free until the 7 th grade. From that point on, school costs, which then makes it unaffordable for the majority of the fsmilies It's amazing how well these guys survive with three batteries and a 12 inch square solar panel. .that's enough to run a TV , and maybe a light at night.

School bus

the barber hard at work.

Tonight we climb  aboard an Air Vietnam plane and landed in Saigon,or otherwise known at Hochiminh City, what a contrast to last night. I am dead tired, so off to bed and tomorrow should be fun.
I am taking off away from the tour, to visit the Cu Chi tunnels. These tunnels were built by the Viet Cong during the French Vietnamese war of1946 to 1954. Then used by the Viet Cong as a base of operations during the Tete Offensive of 1968 against America.