Que Huong Hotel Soc Trang

Well the Night Markets proved fruitful again.............I do not think it is unreasonable of me to want to buy a 12kg wooden Buddha to take home in the first two days of a one month holiday. Davey has big shoulders and he isnt getting any training while we are away so............ No :-)) he loved it too but it is proving to be a bother considering it didnt fit into the case we had as ...

Hommikul oleme sunnitud äratama hotellimehe, et tubade eest maksta, oma suured seljakotid hoiustada ja üldse hotellist välja pääseda. Söögikohad on kõik veel kinni, viimaks leiame tädi, kes on nõus meie jaoks liha saia vahele panema. Meie minivan jalgrataste ja giidiga tuleb suht täpselt. Giidiks on imepisike neiu Yin, kes jutustab meile Saigoni ajaloost ja parimatest söögikohtadest. Iga lause lõppu ütleb "jes!". Juht kuulab täie volüümiga raadiot ja ...

Yesterday we went off to the Mekong Delta, bout a 2 hour trip from Saigon, but seemed longer. A bigger bus this time with 7 other people, 3 of them middle aged (conservative +++ ) couples. Us 3 girls were thanking our lucky stars we had such great company on our big trip , coz couldn't have stood them for longer than 2 days. Anyway that didn't bother me as it was so beautiful, yet again, to be in a quiet and peaceful area. We stayed the night in a communal place right ...

Today we hopped on a local bus and travelled 2 hours (60kms) south to the small town of Soc Trang. Our reasons? We wanted to see bats.....lots of bats. Just outside the town centre is the Chua Doi Pagoda, and the grounds of the pagoda are home to hundreds of fruit bats. Fruit bats are often called "flying foxes" because they have snouts similar to a fox, and are brown in colour ...

Hi everyone, I thought is was time for another entry. I have been pretty busy lately trying to see as much of Vietnam as possible, while doing as little work as possible. Although this last situation is not of my planning, I have been having a few communication problems with the people at work, they have come up with a work plan but it is not overly effective, however me just being their seems to be enough for them. So I will take advantage of the situation and ...

We went to ceramic pottery places today kinda like the town (cant think of name) in NC Had lunch and off to airport for our flight to Siem Reap in Cambodia Will write more tonight be sure to go to www.flickr.com under linda.spallone I got some pictures uploaded of Ha Long Bay this morning Tonight !!! Random thoughts .. Finally A decent computer with a speed faster than a stubborn mule!! Got all my pictures ...

After eating our fill in Cantho we decided to carry on through to Soc Trang. Unfortunately we couldn't find a bus that would take us all the way there so had to settle on being dropped off out on the main highway then taking motorcycle taxis the last 5km or so into town. We suspected that, with there not being a direct bus route to the town, tourism might not be so developed. Once we got there we discovered it wasn't developed at all ...

As many of you already know, I was fortunate enough to stumble across an in-flight movie from Taiwan to Hong Kong called "Talladega Nights the Ballad of Ricky Bobby" which made me laugh so hard that I thought I would pee myself. The flight was only about an hour and I started to watch it about half way through the flight. I hungered really badly to see it afterwards, told Mike all about how funny it was, then it became our mission to find from that moment forth ...

So where did we leave off? Lets see, your intrepid traveling friends had just finished dinner at Hung's and we were getting ready to leave when lo and behold we heard English being spoken to us! It was a couple of Vietnamese, man and wife, now living in America talking to us asking us about our travels. They invited us over to their table to eat with them. I, always wanting things to get stranger, accepted for the both of us and off we went to another table. There was ...

Went to pagoda in HCMC w/ Dang. Son/Sung takes me to Soc Trang w/ his boss who are two young rich women. One is married to a Tawainese who can't drive but hires Son to drive for her. She has a child. Big house, an expensive Xe Om called the 'Dylan' and takes care the rest of her family. The second to the youngest is engaged to a Viet Kieu from Hawaii. They have been dating for 4 years. She is a born ...