{"id":847,"date":"2019-10-24T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T00:19:04","slug":"to-chau-doc-sam-mountain-and-tra-su-bird-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/to-chau-doc-sam-mountain-and-tra-su-bird-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"To Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c, Sam Mountain and Tra Su Bird Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
We left our lovely guest house in C\u1ea7n Th\u01a1 on the 17th October and took a 3 hour bus journey to our next destination – Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c which is near the border with Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We stayed in Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c for a week to recharge and catch up on some school work. We didn’t venture far during our time there – we just mooched around town visiting the local market, cafes and restaurants, and the riverside where there were exercise machines for the kids to play on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We made friends with some ladies from a local tour agency who wanted to improve their English so we chatted with them and let them photocopy Martha’s English textbooks! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They organised our visit to Sam Mountain to visit the Hang Pagoda and the Tra Su Bird Sanctuary for a day which we all enjoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hang Pagoda (or Ch\u00f9a Hang, or Cave Pagoda) on Sam Mountain is a Buddhist temple and is reached by climbing a few hundred steps up. There were some great views of the surrounding countryside of the Mekong Delta when we got to the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were several levels to explore, as well as a network of tunnels deep within the mountain with various rooms and places to worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the afternoon we went to Tra Su forest which contains cajaput trees and flooded mangroves and areas turned green by water ferns during the rainy season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We took a boat trip through the flooded forest along narrow channels, which the kids enjoyed, and then climbed a watchtower to get a view above the forest canopy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We left our lovely guest house in C\u1ea7n Th\u01a1 on the 17th October and took a 3 hour bus journey to our next destination – Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c which is near the border with Cambodia. We stayed in Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c for a week to recharge and catch up on some school work. We didn’t venture far … Continue reading “To Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c, Sam Mountain and Tra Su Bird Sanctuary”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure><\/li>
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