Vinh Long, Vietnam. Feb 2013

So after Phu Quoc i traveled first to Can Tho where i was visiting to see Floating market but just my lucky it was just beginning of Chinese new year so actually there wasn't nothing but couple boats selling fruits, fish, pancakes and stuff like that but i bet it must be awesome when there is lots of boats, was nice to go there still little before sunrise so watching sunrise on river was breath taking experience.

Sun Rise in Mekong

some boats in floating market

these i bought on market, so fresh.

Later on evening i was seeing also Chinese Dragon dance but my part of town wasn't so massive party still, but i still got idea, dragon dance was really acrobatic :)

When i came Can Tho i was meeting woman who arranged homestays so i was booking home stay for couple days. On that time they were really home stays yet but later years when gone back Vietnam they seem to be more like family hotels, but now i'm talking about real homestay where you actually live with family.

So thing was that home stay was in Vinh Long, North from Can Tho.
I think it was something called Thuy Nga homestay.

So i traveled to Vinh Long to home stay. It was, again, one of best memories to live someones house.

It was really countryside and again there was just one woman who spoke English, same that arrange that homestay. Because was Chinese new year they had party where was lots of so good food that still i get tear to my eye, just to remember that. And of source local liqueur , on plastic cans.

before eating

So there we were: me and local men, around round table, eating and drinking liqueur. And they were so friendly people there. System to eat is that you have food cup and stick and food is deserved middle of table so everyone is taking food to them cup something and eat then, EXCEPT me: they were constantly filling my cup so my job was just eat as much as fast i could, sometimes i tried to talk someone something but because they didn't speak English they always was giving me shot of  liqueur and laughing same time. 

and then party :)

So very soon i realized how to balance my talking: eat more, talk less, unless you want to be really drunk fast :D

After eating i took nap on hammock when men still were eating and drinking.

After nap i wanted to take pee, so i asked where is toilet. Men where shoving little building little far, i went there, opened door and it seemed just like shower room, not with real shower but buckets. But not really toilet on the floor. So i asked woman who was keeping homestay where is toilet. And she shoved same room.

So when i explored more better i realized: it was shower room and also toilet. Thing is that there is not really Indian style hole on the floor, instead floor was falling to one corner where was this tiny tiny hole, so you just do your things to shower floor and then water and hope that everything is going towards that hole.... After that Indian toilets were feeling very luxury :)

"toilet" left up corner you barely see tiny hole?

Next day we went some of them relatives house where was similar party, i thought that toilet was just my family's thing but there was also similar, so i ques that's normal there. As always, i didn't had to take food myself, they were filling my cup again, and of source liqueur .

Later me and some young boy of family(hard to say because no English) went to see with motorbike some grandfather who liked me very much and also wanted to end 1.5 liter liqueur  bottle with me. Of source too big job and he looked really disappointed, like it would be some kind of honor thing not to finish it. I said boy with me to tell grandfather that if i come Vietnam again i finish that bottle with him and he was better mood then :)

These Vietnamese were so friendly, when one day i was loaning family's motorbike just to look countryside i just had to pass any house little slower and they were shoving hands that they invite me to dinner, but wanted to stay my family, would be rude just change place without warning.

So it was fun, only thing was language barrier and my opinion is that Vietnamese are not so good to ques when you try to show hand marks so there wasn't much joy neither. 

But that was basically it, from there i think i traveled to Ho Chi Minh City and was flying back to home in Finland, that was end of my 3 months trip in Asia, including Nepal,Laos,Cambodia and south Vietnam. I went back to home mind full of stories, very happy, knowing that this was just 1 of 3 trips on Asia, all of them taking 3 months. But i tell you later of my second big trip ;)