Seagull Quy Nhon

... 273;&#7845;t<br>kho&#7843;ng 3 km, các b&#7841;n tr&#7867; b&#7855;t &#273;&#7847;u cu&#7897;c khám phá thú v&#7883;. Càng &#273;i sâu vào<br>r&#7915;ng, nhóm b&#7841;n tr&#7867; càng khám phá nhi&#7873;u loài cây nh&#432; trâm, chò, c&#7847;y, d&#7847;u<br>rái, d&#7847;u &#273;&#7891;ng, d&#7847;u lông, d&#7867;, bình linh, ngành ng&#7841;nh, s&#7893;, s&#7897;p, sung, si&#8230;<br>và các lo&#7841;i thú r&#7915;ng nh&#432; sóc, ch&#7891;n, cheo, nhím, heo r ...

... cách Hà N&#7897;i 1.065 km v&#7873; phía B&#7855;c, cách thành ph&#7889; H&#7891; Chí Minh 690 km v&#7873; phía Nam và cách thành ph&#7889; Pleiku (Tây Nguyên) 176 km.<br>

... do to me sending unnecessary goods and weight back home 3 days prior. The people, as always, were as friendly as could be. Usually it&#8217;s just the dogs and kids that stare unabashedly, but even the older folks took double takes and kept there eyes fixed for several seconds longer than usual. I could tell not many white people had walked down that street. I found a lady selling sandwiches and bought a baguette off of her for breakfast.<br> I was chowing down when a guy on a moped ...

... thought of knowing that I&#8217;d rather have been no where else, doing nothing else, than being right where I was, doing exactly what I wanted to do when that second flipped by. Aww man, what a great feeling! That&#8217;s happened to me probably....ten times on this trip, and every time is just as surreal as the last. <br><br>That&#8217;s what I like about this trip and what it means to me. I try not to think of what I&#8217;m doing as traveling, because I&#8217;m living. This is ...

... and (c) we didn't really know where we were going! So, after about 2km we decided this was a bad plan and stopped to ask a local shopkeeper to call us a cab! (Still, cheaper than the motos!)<br><br>We got a lift to Barbara's (the only hostel in Quy Nhon), only to find that it had been replaced by a rather swish new hotel. As it was 10pm and we were tired and drained after our nightmare journey, we decided to stay. What a great idea... The room was ...

... their control and stability under pressure. :-D<br><br>The language barrier proved difficult here. We went to a restaurant next door to Barbara's, and were surrounded by about 6 waiters and waitress all wanting to serve us and they wouldn't give us a chance to look at the menu... we contemplated ordering the clams as there were shells on the floor and it seemed easy to pick these up and point indicating that we wanted these, this didn't ...

... man sich jedoch vor wie im Zoo. Die Vietnamesen hier sind sich halt kaum Auslaender gewoehnt und starren und tuscheln ohne Ende. Auch das Essen in den Restaurants ist eine Herausforderung, denn englische Speisekarten (und ueberhaupt die englische Sprache) sind noch nicht bis hierher vorgedrungen...<br><br>Das ist das urspruengliche Vietnam...keine Touts und Moefifahrer, die staendig "hey you, motorbike? very cheap!" rufen!! So gefaellt es uns :-)<br>

... resorts to the north and south, it wont be for long. The main beach has hundreds of fishing boats moored just off-shore and when I arrived the wives and families were just going out to meet the boats and bring in the days catch. They do this in boats which are completely circular and about 4ft in diameter, I don't know who invented them or thought that they'd be the most practical shape but they're very pretty. As was the ...

... to hire some bicycles and explore this town. We noticed on the taxi journey yesterday that there were a couple of Cham towers on the outskirts, probably about 5 kilometres away. A little visit to expand our Cham insight was in order. On route a Cham museum would let us look at some more preserved artifacts and oddly enough a US tank excavated from the shoreline (rumour has it another two can be seen). The heat of the day was truly in full swing ...

... start, we spent the afternoon exploring the road on down south, going through villages and passing out quite a number of cows which just seem to wander freely. We had a great day and were definitely less sweaty than the day before, what with the wind blowing though our hair (well Anne's anyway). The following day we just spent lazing around whiling away the time until our overnight train came in to take us onto Ho Chi Minh City / Saigon.