Day 5 - Travel Day to Ha Tien

We are on our way to camp with 150 children! 67 girls from our Scholarship program of Tan Hoi Trung and My Hiep villages; 20 girls from the Little Rose Warm Shelter (a shelter for girls that have been abused, trafficked and homeless) and the remaining from an orphanage in Thu Duc (a suburb of HCMC). They all left early for the 6 hour journey and we slept in an extra hour. Of course there were delays, nothing like trying to navigate a huge tourist bus down a "highway" that is only wide enough for 4 scooters and a bicyle! The children beat us and went on a fun field trip to see a temple inside a cave. The rest of us came in just in time to get cleaned up and ready for dinner.

Ha Tien is about about 300 km from Saigon and in the province of Kien Giang. It lies only 1 km from the Cambodia border. It's a small town but has a wonderful beach. It's still hard to see the gap between rich and poor in this country. We went from Cao Lanh to cross the ferry twice across the Mekong River. We got to Long Xuyen and made our way south to Rach Gia. once there we had just a couple more hours to Ha Tien.

Tonight we sort a few more things to prepare for our new teams - sports, obstacle course and arts and crafts. A whole day on the beach tomorrow- aaaahhhh!