Hong Thien Hotel Hue

... here but it also exudes the feeling of a working class town with opportunities to meet people.

I walked across the bridge overlooking the orgasmilicious lake. Going for a gentle stroll I roamed the streets of Hue, whilst avoiding motorbike collisions and did my compulsory purchase of a t-shirt and grabbed some pressies, while exchanging banter and wild laughter with the sellers and being ...

... and decided that it might be quite a good way to see the town.
Going against all the pre-conceptions we had about motorbikes in Vietnam, we hopped on the back of the bikes and stopped off at Pagodas (saw the one where the monk Thich Quang Duc who set himself on fire in protest against the regime's violations of religious freedom, worshiped and studied. His car was there that he drove in to get to Saigon to do the deed ...

... fines are dependent on the income level of the family. This is a good idea as the population of the country is now at a whopping 86 million. If you look at the geography, VN is a heck of a lot smaller than the province of Quebec.

Men are apparently a lot more powerful than women, who typically stay home and look after the kids and the household (remember, this is what the guide says, not me, and we're in Hue in Central VN, not in the big ...

... the next leg of our trip & passed Phuong Nam Cafe which I had read on trip advisor was where 2 great motorbike guides hung out. Asked if he was in & they called him in & we have now booked he & his friend for tomorrow for $10 each for the day.

Booked our bus tickets to Nimh Binh - 180,000Dong ( around $12 AUS) each & then grabbed a moto to take ...

... forever be imprinted into my mind. I had had my fair share of swimming and decided to go find Jonathon and Luke to see what they were up to. Climbing out of the ocean I assumed that my skivvies would be easy to find, boy was I wrong.

I couldn’t find them anywhere. I don’t know how long I spent running around naked kicking at sand before I finally decided to put some clothes on. I searched for them for another 30 minutes finding nothing. I decided to put it off for a ...

... pastries, not for our own benefit or course but to support the orphanage programme that made them.
In the evening we had a nice meal and another bottle of red wine and met up with some friends traveling out here from Uni amazingly at the same time but doing Vietnam in reverse to us and our paths had crossed in the middle. We swapped traveling tales and drank far too much cheap beer. I don't know what time we made home but it was raining and late.

5th ...

... was pretty hard to ignore so I went up and started talking to them. Once they saw we were friendly they stopped making fun of us but this attitude that it's ok to make fun of foreigners, especially when we try to speak the language seems to be quite prevalent throughout the country.

This is the first country I've visited where I have felt negativity towards me because I”m a foreigner (before they even find out what nationality I am). I ...

... place, they were each designed by the men themselves, so were individual according to each emporers taste. Quite weird thought of emporer wandering around thinking 'well this is nice, but it is essentially focused on me being dead', quite morbid no? They were very peaceful places, probably for this reason, with little pavilions set on lily filled lakes and landscaped gardens set around traditional chinese temples. However, mopeds are apparently like pringles, once you pop ...

... A las 8.30am nos vamos de excursión en moto.Cada uno vamos de paquete en una moto.











Vemos primero la pagoda de Thien Mu












y después salimos de la ciudad y vamos hacia la zona rural hasta llegar al puente de Thanh ...

... today was a knockout, blue skies, green islands, white sandy beaches, that's more like it! ;)



We had a pretty rough breakfast of what tasted like McEggs served with very processed white bread, with the usual VERY sweet Vietnamese coffee which felt like your teeth were rotting as you drank it!



Our captain then upped anchor and went off to ...