Row Row Row Your Boat (to Vietnam!)

So as the title might hint, we decided to make our way to Vietnam on a boat.
On a boat?
Yes. On a boat.
But Why?
So we thought it would be nice to combine the border crossing to Vietnam with a tour of the Mekong Delta...
And...?
All in all it was just great! On this two day boat trip we saw and did quite a lot:
We rode a mini van to the boat pier for about two hours while almost melting from the heat.
We were riding a not-so-nice boat from Phnom Penh to the border
Aammm... excuse me.. this doesn't sound so great.
You are right. But it got way better. Just read, will ya?
We then rode a really nice boat with fancy seats along the Mekong Delta, where we saw the locals in their daily life.
At the afternoon we stopped in a nice border town called Chau Doc where we spent the night. We walked along its promenade, ate some nice local food and went to sleep quite early (breakfast was at 6am.. who knew???)

Sounds nice.. and then what?
After breakfast we got into a really small rowing wooden boat, which was steered by an even smaller vietnamese woman. She took us (only one couple of people in each boat, so it was soley Abbey and me) to a local fishing farm (stinks!) , and to a Cham minority village (a muslim minority in the south of Vietnam)

So how was it?
It was very nice. First, we were lucky enough to escape the stinky water the fish were spraying (as oppose to some unlucky English girl...). Then, we saw the local Cham women making some silk scarfs. Last, we were molested by endless number of little girls begging us to buy their pastry, forcing us to promise that if we would buy it would be from them (we will probably never forget their cry "Buy from me! From mmmmeeeeeeee!!!")

Not so bad. So what was next?
Later, we visited some pagodas and climbed the Sam mountain (so many stairs, goddamn it!) to view some beautiful scenery of the area. And finally, we made our way to Ho Chi Minh City (a.k.a. Saigon) by a bus ride of around 5 hours.

WOW! Quite an adventure. But don't you forget something?
Matter of fact I don't. I just kept the best part to the very end. Happy Birthday Abbey! Yes.. Abbey turned 29 today and now we are going to celebrate. Bye Bye!