Finally found a supermarket

Week? I don't know. Date? no idea. Time? Couldn't tell you. That's a lie I'm wearing a watch, its 2.09pm.

I am now in Nha Trang, Vietnam. We've been in Vietnam for just over 2 weeks now I think. Its brilliant here so we're changing our route so we can come back here after Cambodia instead of going back to Thailand.

Here's a taste of why......

Opposite Nha Trang there's a little Island called Vinpearl or as I like to call it - The Island of never ending fun. Basically you pay the equivalent of about 10 pounds and take a cable car across to the Island (of never ending fun). Once you get there everything is free. This includes:
Waterpark, but not just any waterpark a fantastic one with about 50 000 000 slides and not to mention, a wave pool.
Themepark...tick
Funfair
2 Storey amusement arcade, with bumper cars... tick tick.
Aquarium
4D cinemas and
various shows including monkey's riding bicycles. (They appeared very well looked after)

So strange, a whole island dedicated to all of this.

As anyone who has been to Vietnam can tell you there is no such thing as "Road Rules" here. I have taken my life in my hands a few times a day since being here. You just have to walk and hope for the best. We saw an accident the other day, 2 mo peds, each one had a baby on it, as well as adults, one went into the back of the other. There was mayhem. It got pretty nasty. I think one woman lost a sandal. I saw here get off the moped and actually slip her sandal back on before she continued. In a place like this you just never know what's going to happen.

We're going to the beach to see if we can get some Kite surfing lessons set up and then we'll probably end up staying in Nha Trang for a week or so.

I'm sure there's a lot more I could say but everything just seems to be a blur at the moment. Today I had to find my password to get back into writing this. I couldn't remember a simple password. It's the heat.

So I'm going to the beach now to take a dip in the clear blue water which contains many exotic fish in order to provide entertainment whilst one is relaxing and cooling themselves down. ( or in my case practising fake tumble turns under water and thinking I can do handstands)

Until next time.

Why d all the men here have long fingernails????

Week 4. I think. I'm losing track of time and I haven't read a newspaper or watched the news since I've been here, through no fault of my own, I feel....lost. I need a metro, the most reliable news source, of course.

What I have experienced since last writing:
1) What it feels like to withdraw money from an ATM when one has just won the lottery.
2) Without a doubt the most humiliating time of my entire life
3) Severe numb bum syndrome.

I'll start with number 2.
Before we left Chang Mai we had arranged to do this "activity day."

we had already booked to do this trekking and white water rafting experience. So we were up at 7.30am got picked up, taken to a butterly orchard first of all then elephant trekking and then we had to walk across the "jungle" for an hour but our guide was telling us all these different plant facts along the way which took your mind of the actual walking in the baking hot sun with no shade. There were 3 Canadian girls and 2 German girls but the German girls didn't want to white water raft so we split up after the waterfall. So we arrive at the river (I am uber excited at this point, this is what I have been sooo looking forward too) get all geared up, helmet, life jacket etc. Carry the boat down to the water, the rafting guide or teacher, don't know what he was really, makes sure we all get in the boat. All usual procedure. What no one had bothered to tell us, just a minor detail, was that there was no water. yeah. no water. The river wasn't even a foot deep. I could touch the the bottom with my little finger. /// Now, at this point I'm sure you're thinking, 'oh no, how disappointing, so you'd gone all that way and didn't get to do it' Wrong. The guide/teacher still made us attempt this. Honestly they will do anything for your money here it's unbelievable. So we're trying to paddle even though our oars are scraping the bottom. Every time we even get near a rock our boat beaches and the guide has to get out and pull the boat over the rocks, don't worry we did offer to help but he wouldn't have it, he would obviously rather have us sit and look like idiots. (I hope you're understanding at this point that white water rafting is done in what is essentially a really big rubber dingy so its not exactly going to withstand rocks) To add insult to injury, it must have been the weekend and so the whole way along the river. on either side were the Thai locals in their bamboo huts, hundreds of them swimming and playing in the water. It felt like the whole of Thailand was there to see the show. Picture this: 5 Westerners wearing life jackets and helmets trying to paddle down a river, being pulled over rocks by their guide (who is not wearing any safety gear I might add) mean while in the same river, 2 year olds walking alongside their boat, splashing them. And the whole of the Thai population laughing at them. For an hour and a half.

IT might not sound like it, but it was the most embarrassing experience.

The thing is, although its was so embarrassing (and at some points I wanted to cry), it was also extremely funny. It was so bad you just had to laugh.

So after that we headed home, exhausted unfortunately not from fighting our way through rapids.

I'm in Laos at the moment I think we've been here for about 2 weeks? There's something like 12,000 kip to a pound so it was really satisfying being able to say "shall I withdraw 700,000 or 1,000,000 today " Laos is very strange place. There is a lot of diversity between each town. One minute you're in a small town straight out of the movie 28 days later in which the only people that you come into contact with are the ones offering you opium and weed and other than that you're too scared to do anything in case you go missing for the rest of your life. Next you are in the most beautiful, idyllic haven where everyone is super friendly and kind, where you don't get an hassle as you wonder around contemplating whether or not to spend 30p on a meal or whether that's too expensive (???) And then, well then you end up in crazy town. I'll say no more.

We are currently in Vientiane, the Capital of Laos. We went to a water park today and were the only 4 people there. Quite nice having an entire water park to yourself.
We are off to Vietnam tomorrow.

I'm getting rubbish at writing, it's so hard! But I'll try and write again soon.