Tran Ly Hue

Hue was incredubly wet. The first time it had really rained non stop throughout the day!! Even though I was petrified, I agreed to go on a motorbike tour to see how the vietnamese hats are made, how incense is made and the paddy field. Was actually really good fun, although my bike broke down so I had to go on the back of another bike for a little ...

... Hanoi. The biggest city between Nha Trang and hanoi was Hue. On CNN we saw that was hit the hardest by Ketsana as it made landfall there. We would see, there were 140.000 people evacuated and a lot of water as we could see. The train left...we are going.!!

In our coach was also a very old Vietnamese lady and her daughter. Very busy talking and eating,but no English at all. Rebecca was a student from Maine, USA. A nice chubby girl who travelled alreadt a lot for ...

... on Trip advisor that these guys hang bout there & recognised the name. I asked for Quy & they called him!





Went out of town to a lookout that had a big Us bunker from the war & looked over the pretty Perfume River. There was an attractive pagoda on the river with nice views over the river, we followed the ...

... with Jonathon. We cruised out to the beach on the non-touristy part and kicked it. The ride out was through rice paddies, workers, and ladies selling ocean dwelling animals. Once there we just sat on the beach and talked about life and love. On the way back in we stopped at a local soccer game and watched it in it’s entirety. A fight broke out which was interesting to me, seeing as how they aren’t supposed to "lose face". A dude got his ass kicked by a soccer player and he ...

... flavours of vodka we could stomach! Drew had "****" (which is bovril), cinnamon, fishermans friend and Le Mon (aka lemon but he was drunk when he read the label as le mon). Apparently the cinnamon was rank but the **** and fishermans friend were nice. I had the snickers which was nice but promptly switched to the girlie drinks (ie mango daiquiri) as the vodka shots were massive!

We ended up chatting to the staff (who were mental - they were trying to make up ...

... head up to read or gaze out the window.

My first challenge was figuring out how to climb up. I planted my feet on a nearby bar, clumsily leaped up, trying to not hit the guy below, and bumped my head on the roof of the carriage. I fumbled for my seat belt and realized I didn't have one. All that kept me from tumbling off was a handle bar in the shape of an upside down "U" situated alongside my hip. I tried to get ...

... trip that was supposed to take in the sights of the city, but actually just meandered around a couple of murky swampy lakes and then returned with not much excitement to the inner-city. We entered with the hope that it might be the highlight of the day...it wasn't. After Angkor Wat, ruins have to be pretty epic to be registered as impressive, and this particular area had very little else apart from some ...

... loved to spend another day here to look around the DMZ and explore the tunnels, which are supposed to be less touristic that the ones down south. Unfortunately they're also a bit more difficult to get to and I just don't have enough time to do it. I already know that I want to come back here at some point though, I had to miss out Sapa too, in the north, which looked amazing, much better than the trekking I did ...