Right after lunch the family that hosted us sang Cai Luong (Vietnamese traditional songs and the style in which it’s played). It was great. It’s so rare any more to see people perform in traditional instruments. The new Viet music is a bad mix of disco, rumba, techno and new wave. All the singers sound alike, male or female. We heard this contemporary music blasting everywhere we went. After two weeks, all of us were ready to smash a few speakers in Viet Nam.


The tour was fun. It kept us busy all day long with sight seeing and stops along the way. We went to the candy factory, then to a rice cakes factory. Several of us tasted the alcohol soaked in cobras and scorpions. It wasn’t as bad as it looked. The tour was very well organized, very impressive for Vietnamese standard.

We got to the city of Can Tho by 5:30pm that day. It’s weird that it’s only 5:30 in the afternoon because it seemed like it had been such a long day. We’d done so much already.

After a short break we rented a couple of motorbikes with trailers to take us to a barge on the river for dinner. We never made it to the boat. As soon as we got to downtown Can Tho, the soccer game between Viet Nam and Philippines was over; Viet Nam won. The local took to the streets with flags, banners, horns etc…. in celebration. Jason and I left the motorbikes and walked to film the event. I’ve never seen anything like this before. The crowd was so wild. They hammed it up to the camera. Jason and I started to lead cheers and the crowd got into it. We literally stopped traffic. At one point, the people picked up Jason and tossed him up and down. Jason’s a giant compares to these guys. I lost my voice for at least a week from yelling. It was so much fun.