all the way to Dong Ha (well, Hue anyway) If we made it over 20mph I'll be amazed. It's only actually 189km from Da Nang to Dong Ha, we left at 9:30, stopped at Hue for lunch and eventually arrived in Dong Ha at about teatime. That was a very looooooong day. The only time we broke the 30mph barrier was if we were overtaking a large, slow moving vehicle, generally right into the path of another large, thankfully slow moving vehicle. I think the Vietnamese just like bumpy, crappy rides, certainly Duc and the pilots on both our flights all seem to have signed up to that philosophy. White knuckles all the wasy (even at 20mph)
BB has had a chill out time, the weather has been either blistering, bake a bunny, melt your chocolate into a squidgy puddle hot (speaking from experience here,) or wet and cold.
The highlight of Dong Ha was brekkie at the massive new SaigonTourist Hotel, in the rooftop lounge (sounds better than it tasted, Vietnam simply hasn't cracked bacon yet.) It afforded an awesome view of Dong Ha's lack of skyline, but a nice view of the river and surrounding countryside (lotta countryside.)
You can imagine how excited we were to make it back to a big City and the bright lights of er Hue, (and the tintaweb)
Pity it hasn't stopped raining since we got here.
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