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This lovely picture of a traditional Chinese style boat was taken on our notorious boat tour. We were basically scammed totally, let`s not beat about the bush here. A scary old lady that looked like she was highly likely to have some nasty disease, cornered us on the promenard. She shoved a very dirty little book, that could probably transmit whatever her disease was to us, under our noses and muttered stuff in pidgin English. We got dragged on to a pier ready to get on a boat, and then she basically changed the price she wanted to charge us. While we were busy grumbling however, Rick had given her his cash and jumped on the boat before we had a chance to haggle the price. So then 6 of us all handed over the same amount they would have taken out on person for - basic laws of economics says we could definitely have got a better price.

But we swallowed our pride and followed Rick onto the boat...

We then spent over an hour being taken round a dirty smelly harbor being shown the boat drivers friends and being pointed out every piece of floating rubbish and house-boat with electricity there was to see. While all the time had to listen to his unintelligible English intermitted by him ringing his friend to bet the small fortune we had just given him on the horses. Overall, we were not particularly impressed.