welcome to the beautiful Mekong Delta a serene and unique environment here in
Vietnam and the perfect place to finish our tour in this magnificent country or is it
i have to drive far away right okay so this whole place is a scam sadly this is the last episode of
the vietnam series and things took a turn for the worst my experience got soured and i left
with my tail between my legs i got chewed up and spat out here in the southern part of the country
and well this is my story enjoy this last episode of level two of next level adventures
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internet and thank you to nordvpn for sponsoring this section of the video now let's pick things
up at four o'clock in the morning because this is where things will start to go wrong
it's bright and early today we're doing something special i'll show you what
it is in a minute i've got a 12 minute drive to get there first to bear with me
don't ask me where i am because i don't know
but i've been flagged down by two vietnamese people
and i think this is our mekong delta tour
let me get i haven't been told a price yet so let's make sure i'm not getting absolutely
shafted i think i think the going rate is 250 000 but let's just check this is uh how much yeah
okay 250. i have no idea how long this is going to last and i have no idea what's going on i'll
sit here okie dokie so at this point i need to do a voiceover for two reasons one is i need to
explain a little bit more about what was happening around me because i wasn't really in the mood for
talking too much on camera it was super early i was knackered i was also sick but also it was
deafeningly loud i'll just cut the music out one section here i won't talk this is how loud it was
so yeah at this point i thought oh god what have i got myself into
i'd clearly driven down the wrong road i'd been flagged down by a couple of charlatans
and my tired ill state i had kind of just gone along with it thinking that everything was gonna
be okay if i had my wits about me if i'd had a coffee in the morning if i was well rested
and not sick i probably would have just stopped this entire experience right here and right now
this was clearly not what was sold on instagram now off camera i had been to the hospital actually
um a couple of days before i was suffering with tight chest pain and shallow breathing
i was getting out of breath quite often just from walking upstairs and i thought this isn't right
so i went to the hospital in saigon and i had a little x-ray and i have a chest infection so
i took some antibiotics and he just said you know just wear a mask when you're outside stay
away from smoky pollution don't smoke cigarettes i don't smoke anyway but anyway long story short
i had a chest infection and this was not the place to be the fumes of the boats and the tours and the
industry this whole area of the delta the whole area south of saigon this is where the industry is
so many factories pumping smoke and all sorts of pollution not only into the air but into the
rivers this part of vietnam i'm sorry to say isn't pleasant to be in at all so yeah as you can see
i was having a nightmare start to the day but i thought maybe this tour's gonna get better maybe
we're gonna get out of this area and get into the delta get into those luscious green swamps
and connect with nature i did see an opportunity that this might happen
is
so far this is proper [ __ ] hello hello yeah i don't want a souvenir or any ball
so i'm gonna go back on the boat i don't want any ball souvenir back in the main river
the big river the big dirty polluted river of the mekong itself obviously it's right at the end of
the river system so there's lots of factories and lots of industry and lots of pollution
i wasn't expecting thousands and thousands of people at five o'clock in the morning on tours
and obviously as you saw they were all getting dropped off at restaurants um on these group tours
and she wants me to go into her friend's shop and buy souvenirs i don't want to do any of that
i thought we would just go down the mekong delta see the forest see the monkeys see the birds
peace and quiet or something like that maybe but we'll see maybe maybe this is where the
tour starts after the carnage of the delta and the touristy like scam or get breakfast buy a
necklace hopefully now especially if we get ahead of everybody we can have some serenity
she turned us around she took us back into the crazy busy polluted dirty river
and at this point i was just getting my phone out using google translate where are you taking me
what is going on where is the delta i was showing her pictures on my phone you know google images of
the typical images you see on instagram and she was just shouting at me saying no this is
not where you need to go i will go this way she took us down another dirty alley another dirty
canal oh it was just it was horrible i asked her to end the tour she kept going and then i just
i just said look i want to get off this boat i'm going to pay you money don't worry i
just want to leave and you know if i'd had my wits about me this would never have happened
i fell for it hook line and sinker like an idiot
i have to drive far away right okay so this whole place is a scam
right well that was what an hour of just pure hell so how much do they want for this
i'll pay them because i can't be bothered to argue i've got the right money as well that's
that's a result thank you get me out of here please
hey buddy you okay
so
okay um i've made a decision and i'm not i'm not gonna push myself to the southernmost point of
the country i one of the things that i told myself i would try and change uh like a new
year's resolution kind of thing was to not be as stubborn i'm so stubborn if i have something set
in my head then it's gonna be that way and i will do anything and everything to make whatever it is
happen um and it's one of the reasons why i was able to complete the 77 provinces because i was
just so stubborn that i was gonna wasn't gonna give up but um i'm gonna i'm gonna technically
give up trying to get to the southernmost point i've just done some math on google
maps and for me to drive from right here to the monument would be 240 something kilometers
and then to get back to this point would be obviously 500 and then it's another 250 um
back to saigon so um it's almost 800 kilometers which is a huge distance to cover in just a few
days and also just to touch a landmark there's nothing to see and do really just open countryside
um and lots of as as it's been so far since saigon just lots of dirty polluted towns and cities
this part of vietnam is by far the the worst in comparison to the rest of the country in terms
of nature clean air and the roads are really dangerous and i'm just completely over it
i'm completely over and getting to the southernmost point wouldn't fill me with
joy it would fill me with dread that i had to drive all the way back to saigon so i'm
going to pack up this is the little apartment thing that i was staying in it's quite nice
and this town was okay this town was on the river and there was some nice restaurants
but i don't know what that tour was supposed to be but it wasn't what i was expecting and
i still didn't get any information yet about what what what went wrong where did i go why did it not
come to fruition maybe i just got scammed or maybe i went to the wrong place i still don't know
let's just go back to saigon sell the bike
um
bye enjoy
and just like that super dreamy is out of my life and he's happy with it side boxes a
really good helmet and driving gloves and a new motorbike all for six million dong what a steal
hi i'm sorry to end this series on such a somber note but it felt like a defeat i took it like an l
but i think it's important to finish on a positive note
so just quickly thank you so much for watching not just this video but the entire series
all the way from when we bought the bike in hanoi all over our amazing adventures in the north down
through the center into the south and all of the struggles that happened after that
i will make a couple of videos about my experiences in vietnam let me go to thailand
let me go see my girlfriend let me rest let me recover from my chest infection and from the
emotional and physical fatigue that i undertook to not only travel vietnam from top to bottom
but to share my experience with you every three days on youtube
thank you for watching let me go digest i'll come back with the highlights the lows what i learnt my
advice i'll sum that all up in one or two videos very soon i also have a very exciting announcement
i have a new motorbike it's waiting for me in bangkok and i'll be taking my new motorbike to
a new country very soon level three is coming and i hope you enjoyed level two it was a wild ride
do you