I was off out to the Cu Chi tunnels for the morning, I had breakfast and by the time the bus arrived my gut was not feeling the best, I had finished the Anti biotics the night before, so I thought I would see how it went hopefully my gut would settle down. Jumped on the bus with 23 other people we had 5 still to pick up, went around to the next hotel and waited, and waited some more, then two girls jumped on the bus, a few seconds later they were taken off the bus by a guide from a different bus, all we heard were them saying the driver said it would be alright and then the guide said the driver does not speak English. Bit of a laugh to start off with.
We finally started to move and headed towards another hotel and meet up with the 5 remaining passengers, so we were off, we were to have a stop at a place where they make pottery and other things, the usual to try and sell stuff to the tourists, then it would be off to the caves. The bus trip took two hours to get out of the city, for the distance I recon I could have got there faster on my bike, it did not help that we got pulled over by a cop and the driver got a ticket the naughty boy.
The pottery shop was interesting enough, but my gut had not really settled down and was still gurgling, I was quite relieved when we made it to the tunnels. It was pretty busy, every man and his AK 47 was out there, we watch a movie and had a look at the different traps and snares, pretty lethal stuff really, some of the group went off and fired the AK47’s and M 60 etc, which have to say were pretty loud that’s for sure.
We got to the international cave system, this is a part of the cave that they widened and made higher for the Europeans to fit. I would not have wanted to be sent down the smaller caves, I don’t really like caves anyway, give me a cliff and a hundred foot drop any day over a skinny little hole. I managed about the first 20m before I bailed out of one of the exits and escaped it to fresh air. I don’t know how they could have survived the conditions down there, and I can see why the Americans lost the war against people who would injure that for so long.
After the caves it was back on the bus and back into town, my stomach had not really improved but it had also not really got worse so I thought I would jump out and have a look at the war museum and then head back to the hotel, by the time I walked the couple of blocks from where we got dropped off my stomach had gone south, well more north, I felt like throwing up, my stomach was still making lots of noise and was getting sore, so it was time to go and find a doctor yet again.
Back to the hotel and asked them if they knew where I should go, and asked how much it cost to get there, went outside and asked the first motor bike guy how much he gave me a price 3 times over what it should cost, so I told him what I would pay, was not really feeling in the mood for arguing so when he kept on with a price well above what I should be paying I walked away, as I was about 3 meters from him he agreed to my price.
So off to the doctors, got there and got my temperature checked 36.9, got to see the doctor pretty quick, told her my symptoms and told her I had taken some anti biotics and that it seemed to help but once I stopped taking them I felt worse. Got an injection of Anti biotics and then told I have to give a stool sample as well. Got the drugs I needed then back to the hotel and slept for the rest of the afternoon and that night. Just have to produce some stool in the morning and see what the results are from that, time will tell.
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