1000places > The next morning on our way to a remote village, we stopped at a cricket farm.
1000places > As Loretta will attest, if you roll anything in seasoning and deep fat fry it, it's good.
1000places > Well, in Vietnam, the crunchy insects are a popular finger food. We had to try it.
1000places > We walked through sheds where bushel baskets of crickets were being raised.  Why "farm" crickets?
1000places > Leaving the orphanage, we passed a statue of a female Buddhist.  Such statues are common in Vietnam where Buddhists recognize that women can also attain "enlightenment." Little wonder that the women wanted their photo made with the statue.
1000places > Along the way we passed a statue of a female Buddha.
1000places > After our morning sugar fix at the coconut candy factory, it was time to walk back to the ferry boat, this time on foot through a jungle path.
1000places > We were dropped off at another of the local village industries - this one making coconut candy which the women cut and wrapped with blazing speed.
1000places > Horse-drawn carts have been a means of transportation for centuries in Vietnam, and we might well have been transported back into the past had it not been for the omnipresent motorscooters passing by us.

The next morning on our way to a remote village, we stopped at a cricket farm.

1000places > The next morning on our way to a remote village, we stopped at a cricket farm.

The next morning on our way to a remote village, we stopped at a cricket farm.

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