Cambodia/Vietnam

On my last day in Cambodia I went to the Phnom Penh water park which had afew waterslides, a wave pool full of rubbish and a river run that had water that looked like a polluted river but it was heaps of fun and I ended up joining (another) random party that was being held at the pools. The people were workers from some big hotel and they were so happy to party with afew farang that they wouldn't let us leave and kept feeding us some kind of potent wine/rum stuff and insisting that we stay for just one more song. So the next morning I got what was meant to be a big airconditioned bus (but turned out to be a tiny shuttle bus) to the Vietnam border. I'd been warned about how dodgy the Vietnamese people are when it comes to money and charging you for madeup things, but I was surprised that within seconds of crossing the border the officials stamping my visa were already trying to make me pay a 'quarantine fee'. I knew they were just trying to rip me off so I just refused to pay them and they smiled sheepishly like kids thatd been caught doing something naughty, and let me through without paying. I've been in Ho Chi Minh City for 2 nights now and even though I generally hate cities, its really cool here. The traffic is insane; aswell as the usual vehicles coming from all directions at the same time regardless of what colour the traffic lights are, the way to cross the road is to just stroll into the middle of the chaos and hope that you don't get hit! It's pretty scary being surrounded by hundreds of motorbikes all heading in different directions on all sides of the road, and to make things worse they drive on the footpaths too so you can't even walk on them! I've booked an open tour bus ticket and am supposed to be heading to Mui Ne tomorrow morning but have discovered that its a totally dodgy company that I've booked with....