Xin Chao!! We are as close as we can get to Saigon due to low water on the Mekong, so we disembark with luggage to several buses and drive into Saigon. We have lunch upon arriving and then I catch a taxi to the airport for a 4PM flight back to Bangkok.
I clear customs, find a cab and tell him that I want to go to the Aurum Boutique Hotel and he shows me the front page of the newspaper. The picture shows thousands of people in red shirts waving flags.
Oh damn! I read about the political unrest in a Cambodian newspaper, but had heard no news while sequestered on the boat.
The driver explains it is going to cost me to get to my hotel because it is smack in the middle of this uproar. Fine! I am only at the Aurum Hotel for one night to dump my suitcase into one I stored at the hotel and then flying out in the morning to Yangon, Myanmar. The taxi ride costs me about $20 and takes 3 hours.
When I arrive at the Aurum hotel they haul out my big suitcase and arrange a taxi for me in the morning.
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