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 ...

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 ov...

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, tou...

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...

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 H...