Dinner took Mamma Mon

Later that night we discovered it was definitely "back to basics" on this island called Don Det. There was no running water (you can take a bath in the Mekong, or use the water jugs in the wooden shed attached to the latrine), and no electricity. Dinner took Mamma Mon (23 yr old, beautiful mother of Tet who was almost 2 yrs) an hour to cook over the pitfire in her little kitchen. But, it was worth the wait. I had myself a huge bowl of lentil curry. yum yum. Our original group of five togther with the Swiss couple, Sybylle and Juerg, and the French woman had a long nice dinner conversation over candlight. Our conversation at one point turned to stories of huge, nasty, insects and the horrible diseases you can get from them (Flo, got dengue fever from a mosquito bite a couple of years earlier). Needless to say, I had a bit of trouble falling asleep, but I think it was more from the blistering heat more than anything. Unfortunately, night time hardly lowers the high temperature on Don Det.