Today the 3 Amigo's head to Tay Ninh to visit the quite South Vietnamese people for those in Cao Dai Sm - This is a unique religion that you might never expect to encounter, arriving in time for its noon time prayer service, you enjoy peculiar hymns with followers attired in brightly coloured gowns (red, yellow, blue and white). The colourful painted 3D sculptures adorn the many pillars both within and outside the temple with its unusual shaped roof, while inside looking down down the long hall you see a most impressive brass ball with the all seeing eye. This occult practices from Taoism, theories of karma and rebirth from Buddhism, and a hierarchical organization (including a pope) from Roman Catholicism. Well worth the visit. Next stop, was the underground villagea Ben Dinh in Cu Chi ... read more

Hello to all our friends and family. Here we go again! only this time we are headed to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia backpacking for 7 or so weeks. So far we have organised our the flights to and from Ho Chi Minh City (starting and finishing points to our travels), visas for the 3 country’s, and of course somewhere to sleep for the first three nights. Oh we have also gotten in touch with the Vietnam Ulysses group. We are so looking forward to hooking up with them early in our travels, where we will hopefully join them on a ride or two travelling to some of the known and not so well known sites in lower Vietnam. Our backpacks have been packed several times, a bit like santa at Christmas, checking our list twice (passport, ... read more