Well another early start to the day, we had to meet at 7.30 this morning to catch our rather cramped vehicle to the Mekong, a two and a half hour trip away. We arrived at the village of Kabbi, where we were issued with bicyles all of all sizes and descriptions, better quality bikes could be found on any hard rubbish collection in Melbourne. We set off along a rather bumpy gravel road, managing to avoid other bikes and motorcycles as well, after about 2 km we turned onto a concrete path about 1.5 metres wide and managed to make our way through the jungle like vegetation on a 10 km circuit. We were held up for a short time by a motorbike carrying a fridge on the back who had to stop every hundred metres to go under a tree or a power line. We were met at the end by a boat, however we were ushered into an old house and served fruit and tea, before setting off down the river to check out the floating market (see photos). From here we motored on along the Mekong to our Restaurant for lunch, we had similar fare to the previous day, but much better quality food.
After our filling lunch we set off again on our bikes along, what can only be described as a treacherous track and many bridges which were quite challenging. The ride took us through more jungle terrain along a canal, and past many houses, the men all seemed to be heading off to the cock fights, with their prized poultry under their arms, cock fighting is illegal here, but still happens in some villages.
After another 8 km we were well and truly ready to climb back onto our boat, with bistered hands and sore behinds we relaxed for the journey back to town where our trusty driver met us. It was 6.00pm before we got back to the hotel.
Our final team dinner was held at the Italian restaurant, which would put many Lygon Street establishments to shame, the reason we chose this restaurant was because of its vicinity to the tailors, where most of us had clothes to pick up, but also the friendly staff.
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