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/ WHEREVER THE MOOD TAKES US….
Friday 31st
Leave the hotel in Da Lat at 7.30 and make our way to the pick up point, a cafe facing the lake… staple breakfast of artichoke tea and an egg sandwich! VIP (haha) bus tries to pick us up from the busiest roundabout in Da Lat, I have a serious sense of humour failure (poor J!). Anyway we’re on the bus for about 6 hrs… it gives me lots of time to read, sleep and of course stare out of the window. We get to our destination, a hotel outside of Quy Nhon around 3.30pm…
Hotel is ok (no other western tourists so full of Vietnamese celebrating Tet still!)and right on the beach in a small cove, we wander along to the end of the cove and a bunch of fishermen are cranking up their karaoke machine, they try and get us to stay and eat the lobsters that they happily display in their tanks but we tell them that we’ll come back another time, they can’t speak any English and clearer our Vietnamese is limited. Dinner at the hotel isn’t all that inspiring though.
Saturday 1st February
Hire a scooter and head into Quy Nhon, I think the area is known as a retirement place but we’ve still not seen many grey heads, there are loads of hotels though, a massive bay with a long strip of beach. We decide that we’ll move into town as we plan to catch the tran from here to Hou An (or as close as we can get to Hoi An). We check out a couple of hotels, book something whuch weeks ok and then return to the hotel They are setting up for a wedding so that will be interesting to watch from our balcony later. I then wander the beach and am savaged by sandflies! If it’s not bloody mosquitoes it’s sandflies!
Wedding was very sweet, but didn’t go on all that long, started around 5 and was all done by about 8, including the photographs, speeches, wedding dinner, fireworks on the beach! We didn’t watch the whole thing as have returned to our card game tournament (I’m currently winning).
Sunday 2nd February
Woke up feeling lousy, really bad sore throat and later in the day all my sandfly bites from yesterday have reacted badly so I feel even worse like I have flu! Take loads of antihistamines… we move hotels, into Qui Nhon city. Hotel is great, hopefully quiet. Pop out fir something not eat but no English translations on the menu so we do our best with Google translate, plus the owner of the restaurant we go to realises and gives us her phone with photos of the dishes so we just do our best with that. Food was ok. Head back to the hotel which is fortunately not far as I’m feeling really bad. Hoping a good nights sleep will help…
Monday 3rd February
Walking around Quy Nhon, not really a western tourist attraction but definitely the town where Vietnamese come to holiday. Ventured around the markets once again. Back to pack up and we grab some local street food which is surprisingly good. Catching an early train tomorrow….i don’t think I’d need to revisit Quy Hnon but wanted to avoid Nha Trang which is full of Russians!
Leave the hotel in Da Lat at 7.30 and make our way to the pick up point, a cafe facing the lake… staple breakfast of artichoke tea and an egg sandwich! VIP (haha) bus tries to pick us up from the busiest roundabout in Da Lat, I have a serious sense of humour failure (poor J!). Anyway we’re on the bus for about 6 hrs… it gives me lots of time to read, sleep and of course stare out of the window. We get to our destination, a hotel outside of Quy Nhon around 3.30pm…
Hotel is ok (no other western tourists so full of Vietnamese celebrating Tet still!)and right on the beach in a small cove, we wander along to the end of the cove and a bunch of fishermen are cranking up their karaoke machine, they try and get us to stay and eat the lobsters that they happily display in their tanks but we tell them that we’ll come back another time, they can’t speak any English and clearer our Vietnamese is limited. Dinner at the hotel isn’t all that inspiring though.
Saturday 1st February
Hire a scooter and head into Quy Nhon, I think the area is known as a retirement place but we’ve still not seen many grey heads, there are loads of hotels though, a massive bay with a long strip of beach. We decide that we’ll move into town as we plan to catch the tran from here to Hou An (or as close as we can get to Hoi An). We check out a couple of hotels, book something whuch weeks ok and then return to the hotel They are setting up for a wedding so that will be interesting to watch from our balcony later. I then wander the beach and am savaged by sandflies! If it’s not bloody mosquitoes it’s sandflies!
Wedding was very sweet, but didn’t go on all that long, started around 5 and was all done by about 8, including the photographs, speeches, wedding dinner, fireworks on the beach! We didn’t watch the whole thing as have returned to our card game tournament (I’m currently winning).
Sunday 2nd February
Woke up feeling lousy, really bad sore throat and later in the day all my sandfly bites from yesterday have reacted badly so I feel even worse like I have flu! Take loads of antihistamines… we move hotels, into Qui Nhon city. Hotel is great, hopefully quiet. Pop out fir something not eat but no English translations on the menu so we do our best with Google translate, plus the owner of the restaurant we go to realises and gives us her phone with photos of the dishes so we just do our best with that. Food was ok. Head back to the hotel which is fortunately not far as I’m feeling really bad. Hoping a good nights sleep will help…
Monday 3rd February
Walking around Quy Nhon, not really a western tourist attraction but definitely the town where Vietnamese come to holiday. Ventured around the markets once again. Back to pack up and we grab some local street food which is surprisingly good. Catching an early train tomorrow….i don’t think I’d need to revisit Quy Hnon but wanted to avoid Nha Trang which is full of Russians!
Yes they really do dress like this!
The lovely Van Anh and her sister who did an impromptu mini food tour for us
Vietnamese wedding on the beach (sad there’s so many empty chairs!) I felt like ‘wedding crashing’
Peeling quails eggs in the market at Quy Hnon
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