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16th April 2023
Today we took a 3hr bus through he foggy mountains. to drive us to our next destination, Hue. When we arrived, we dropped off our stuff, grabbed lunch before we got ready for the afternoon. We were met outside of our hotel by a gang of motorbikes and told to choose a key out of […]
15th April 2023
Today after taking breakfast where I decided to eat noodles (forgetting about the plan for today) we took a golf buggy through the city to a noodle-making class, where we learned about the different noodles that exist in Vietnam and how they are made. We even got to try to make some ourselves and made […]
14th April 2023
Today our train arrived at 7 am, and we drove for a bit to reach our hotel where we dropped off our bags, before walking to a local cafe where we got breakfast and I got a delicious avocado toast and passion fruit juice. Then we were brought around the city, crossing the different streets […]
13th April 2023
Today I got up early and walked to the beachfront to meet with the diving team for our excursion. We took a taxi to the port, where we boarded our boat, a wooden typical Vietnamese boat, with all of the diving gear at the back. As we started sailing, we got our briefing about the […]
12th April 2023
today, after a difficult night on the rocky bus, we arrived at the city of Nha trang, where I was finally able to take a shower after having been sweaty all day yesterday. We walked around the city for a while, seeing what was around our hotel, before we decided to go to the local […]
11th April 2023
For breakfast today we had noodles, before taking a taxi to go to the war museum where we learnt about the Vietnamese war, albeit a slightly skewed version of history, as told by the communists who won’t he war. We got to see some of the photos of the war showing some of the atrocities […]
10th April 2023
today we woke up at 4:30 am after a rough night, being woken up every 30 minutes by a different noise, the most notable being the storm of crickets landing on our roof and making a noise of 70 decibels in the middle of the night. however we had a long day ahead of us, […]
9th April 2023
Today we tried to get up to watch the sunrise, but unfortunately when we reached the beach, we saw that the horizon was covered in clouds from last night’s storm. We still got to see some of the colours of the sunrise, but weren’t able to get the full experience. After breakfast we all got […]
8th April 2023
Today after breakfast we met our guide, who bought us on a walking tour of the island to see the village. We started by walking to the local school, crossing the only real road on the island (still under construction) Our guide made us stop to try some local rice noodles and then showed us […]
