Bamboo Green Da Nang

... good people. In top of this the army fly fighters by and there is the remains of an old army shelter and bamboo huts on the beach, a flash back in time.<br><br>Near by is Marble mountain a temple sit's on top, pretty impressed! The small town below makes makes huge statues that sit out the front of huge concrete houses, however look's quiet poor. So to get up on the mountain and see the temple being restored was a shock, arriving prior to sunset, this place looks like a set out of an ...

... on the bed. This was all for just £18!<br><br>I set off under cloudy skies to the ancient town of Hoi An and I was surprised at the number of western tourists here. This is definitely the most touristy place so far. There are hundreds of shops selling tailored suits and traditional Vietnamese clothes. This place is only slightly less manic than HCMC in terms of traffic, the very narrow streets making for a great race courses for mopeds ...

... The workshop had a lot of water, but everything had been moved up a floor during the night. The free school on An Hoi was flooded, as usual, and Karen is not going to reopen it until after the rainy season has finished. We heard that it was the first time such a typhoon had coincided with a king tide. We also heard that the authorities had opened the dam that is somewhere upstream, because they were worried about it bursting. Who knows? In any case, the unusually rapid rise ...

... some great<br>food and keep a low profile.<br><br><br><br>Thefood here is amazing. We love cao lau &#8211; a Hoi An specialty soup of<br>noodles, greens, and pork. It's supposed to get its special taste<br>from the town's well water. Don't know if we believe that but it's<br>still delish! While we are eating our cao lau at a street corner<br>stall (but of course!) we meet a nice young woman who invites us to<br ...

Well as the news said, we had a little bit of a storm here in Da Nang. It started Monday night and lasted till Wed. Morning. It was nuts, but kinda cool to be in a storm of that magnitude. It was sad though to think that a lot of the houses in the country side got wiped out and some people even died because of it. <br>So Monday night we were sitting around with our friends playing cards as the wind was howling out side and rain began to fall harder and ...

... constructed yet elaborate nets that could be raised or lowered as required, fishing for catfish; on the road to evening class, he rode alongside six massive water buffalos being marched along the road. There was a man in front alerting traffic, and a man behind keeping them moving. They are magnificent animals, especially in the ricefields, and they looked quite incongruous, yet still impressive, strolling along a bitumen road.<br><br>That&#8217;s all for now.<br><br>Love,<br><br>Mary and Mark.

... all. We had some bread and water and than called it a day. Overall the day was great, but the thing that was hardest about it was that I had two classes to teach after we got back. I only had a 3 hour break or so before I had to head back to school and teach for 3 hours. Uhhh......so Saturday night was shot because I just ended up going to bed after I ate a delicious grilled cheese sand which.

... destination, and were charmed by the French feel of the old quarters, strangely punctuated by lavish pagodas and sparkling temples. The waterfront was lined with cafes and bars, and the streets were teeming with tailors. Hoi An, for some strange reason, is tailor-made-clothes central, and many people we'd met in Hanoi and Halong had sung its praises, telling us that if we wanted to get anything made in Asia, this was THE place to do it.<br><br>Feeling that she had no ...