Today we decided we wanted to explore the local area so wandered around looking for a tour. Some locals said they'd give us a tour on their mopeds and after trying to haggle the price we settled on helping them with their english, lunch and a couple of beers (to be consumed after the tour had finished). They drove us up to Da Nang's famous china beach and into the mountains which was really cool. On the way back we had to get past rush hour traffic which may well be the scariest moment of my life. There are next to no raod laws in vietnam and most of them are ignored. We had people driving the wrong way down a road, everyone changing lanes all the time with no indication, people pulling out at junctions just infront of us and crazy amounts of beeping. Thank fully we made it back in one piece and after kissing solid ground gave the guides enough to get them completely hammered.
After a quick swim at the hotel (that's right a swimming pool in a $3 a night hotel) i went for a shower. This is when i found out why it was $3 a night, there were 2 cockraoches in the shower. As i shouted through to Rich to have a look a millipede fell from the ceiling. Being the rugged adventurer i picked them up and put them in the bin (a fact i would live to regret later).
We then went out and found some of the most amazing street food ever. We found a lady selling sandwhiches and i asked for a cow cheese one (what a rugged adventurer i am). Luckily she ignored it and filled in up with everything she had at her disposal including some fish pate, a mystery meat and chilli sauce. It was the best sandwhich i had ever eaten and everyone agreed so we wrote her a sign to display telling passer's by to get a sandwhich as they were amazing.
We then moved on to a different street seller who made the greatest meat and pineapple noodles ever.
It being our last night with Rich and Ash before they headed back up to Hanoi we hoped to make it a big one. We went for drinks in quite a swanky bar (still with great happy hour deals) before deciding to move on to a club or similar. Unfortunately it started absolutely pouring with rain, the like of which i have never seen. Seeing as the club we wanted to go to was 4km away and open air we decided to call it a night and went home. By moped. Who decided it would be great fun to driv through every puddle he found. We returned soaked through and i just wanted to go to bed.
This is where my decision to not kill the cockroaches earlier haunted me. There were two of them on my bed. Luckily i was still sober enough to deliver two fists of justice, flip my matress over and go to bed.
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