Catbah Island

The ferry ride to Catbah Island could have lasted for twelve hours and I would have been content. I couldn't snap photos of the constantly changing light, landscape and floating fishing villages fast enough.

The rather unamused and non-compliant staff also made for some good shots.

Our plan when disembarking was to ignore all of the tuktuk and motorbike taxis and follow the locals to whatever bus they were getting on. Of course the three of us and all of our luggage were accosted with drivers spitting their ridiculous fares at us:

"Ninety(thousand) dong!"... "Seventy(thousand) dong!..." "Fifty(thousand) dong!"... their offers dropping lower and lower as we neared the local bus. We paid 15 thousand dong, boarded and looked out the window smugly.

One of the bus employees asked if we needed a place to stay and we were delivered to the door of a Seven dollar hotel room with wi-fi and air-con. Awwww yeah. Life was sweet.

View from our room