Good-bye Vietnam

We leave for Cambodia tomorrow -- a 2 day trip through the Mekong Delta and up the Mekong River to Phnom Penh by boat. A bad idea during the rainy season? We'll find out...

Since it's been a while since we posted about our movements throughout Vietnam, here are the details: we left Nha Trang for Mui Ne, in search of a quiet beach without skyscrapers and we found it... Mui Ne was a great place to do nothing, which is exactly what we did for 5 days. The beach at Mui Ne is also an excellent place to collect seashells -- the ocean waves would lob giant conch shells right into our hands.

We are now in Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as many still call it, and have not done much aside from our glutton-fest at the Caravelle and completing chores that must be done before arriving to a new country.

So, tomorrow we leave for the Delta and the day after that, we leave the country. We've been talking a lot about Vietnam... before we arrived, we'd heard from a lot of other travelers on the road that they loved it or they hated it. It seemed to be one of those places without an in-between... But that's where we've found ourselves: we neither love it or hate it. Vietnam, for us, has just sort of been "O.K."

We've been trying to figure out why: is it possible to see too much in a short amount of time, so that nothing seems exciting anymore? has the chaos and clamour of India and the beauty of China ruined us? We don't know... but as it usually happens, once we are gone from Vietnam, our perspectives will be more clear.