Mathew

Well... I wont lie to you. Vietnam is wet, in fact Vietnam is soaking wet.
Just to give you an idea of just how wet it actually is. Take a bucket and fill it with water, then tip it over yourself and repeat for well the last 5 days!.
Vietnam is currently experiencing the backlash of a typhoon and so for the last 5 days its been truely wet and windy and generally very unpleasant. but anyway.

Currently Im in the city of Hue, which is smack damn in the middle of Vietnam. The main sites here are the De-materialized Zone (DMZ) which is where most of the fighting between American and Vietnamese took place.
The citys other main attraction is an old place but around the 1820's which is nice, but its really just an old building with a moat.

Working forwards from the Highland town of Dalat. We moved to the city of Nha Trang, which is a beach resort, the plan was for Siobhan to do some diving while I could sit on the beach, catch some sun and maybe a bit of surfing, but sadly no such luck. :(
Due to the typhoon the rivers that feed into the sea in the local area have been flooded and have made visibility almost nothing under the water, so Siobhan decided against diving blind. Also due to the typhoon the weather has been a disaster of flooded roads and generally damp and unpleasant everywhere. So no surfing either.
Moving up from Nha Trang we travelled by overnight bus to the city of Da Nang, which is basically just a town of taylors, the town itself is very pretty and was one of the citys tha was not bombed by the Americans during the Vietnam war, so the buildings are very old style french design which makes a change from concrete shacks and new modern buildings with no character.
The bus itself is a 'sleeper bus' the best way to describe this is, two levels of bunk beds, which are 5 inches to small for a westerner to sleep in and are shapped so that the knees are bent upwards and the back support is just a tad in the wrong place for anyone over 4 feet. But anyway.

The city of Da Nang has three areas of tourism... It has clothes shops, food shops and hotels. Throw in a lot of people on motobikes and the boat taxies and thats about it.
While in Da Nang we went to the holy land of 'My Son' (pronounced Me Son) which is basically like a smaller kind of Ankar Wot and really not all that impressive.

From Da Nang we travelled on a 4 hour bus to Hue (which is where we are now) and from here we will travel on a 12 hour night bus all the way to Ha Noi. :)
The latest published pictures are:
Asian Adventure Photo Album 12