December 18
The hotel in HCMC arranged this transport to Chou Doc. They told me the price and how long it would take and based on that I put myself into their hands. They told me I was getting ‘the local price’ because I had only one bag and based on how crowded it turned out to be I’d guess they were charging by the pound.
From this place I joined about 15 Vietnamese people in a van and off we went. I got the front seat (because I was the only foreigner?) and had quite a comfortable trip.