What an amazing place

Day 5 - Hue

So today was our day off from driving.  We are nearly half way down Vietnam in the city of Hue. So the plan today was simple, enjoy the city and what it has to offer but mist importantly relax and don't drive at all. So firstly we headed into the ancient citadel of Hue. It is centuries old but still massive portions remained intact since the city got UNESCO world heritage status a few years back. The citadel is huge with a ton if buildings in there. The entrance gate is the most impressive as it is just pure muscle compared to the rest. You know you're entering something important when you pass under the building. The outer Walls actually remind me if walking through the arch at Trinity college, the bustle and noise disappears once you pass through. An amazing feeling. The city is just real nice and full of nice locals who don't really hassle ya into buying stuff or offering taxis and tuk tuks every 2 seconds. We stayed in the Hue Backpackers Hostel run by te same people that run the Hanoi one and it's just as cool. We wandered aroundvthe while city and caught a but if sunshine which was a drastic change to the thunderous rain the day before but we were complaining at all. After we done the citadel it was off to the air conditioned supermarket to pick up cookies and jellies to stem the hunger and it's the first place that I have seen jellies since I left home so right away I had to have some. Then to the turtle pagoda on the hill right beside the Perfume River. It was an awesome pagoda that was 8 stories tall and real slender. Spent about an hour or so up there checking out the view of the city. So then went for some decent food before we hit the road again tomorrow. 

Day 6 - Hue-Hoi An

We had heard about this part of the road from everyone we have talked to any they have all said it's indescribable. We hit the road at about 9 and we planned on taking our time as Hoi An was only 120km away from Hue so we had plenty of time to chill along the way and take it the scenery as we went. So we took the beach road instead of the highway, it was such a glourious driving road, lake in one side and the sea in the other, what more could you ask for, sunshine you say? Well that was there too, all day long. We passed through little fishing villages as we went and smite enough we pull up at a petrol station and we run into an Irish guy doin an organised tour to Saigon on a 250cc motocross bike and he called us the real bikers on our little waves. So on we rocked passing through monutains and valleys and ease and stopping and looking at the views of the countryside. Soon we started coming to the Hai Van Pass, the highest monutain pass on the highway to Ho Chi. So up the monutains we went and my god the views were spectacular. Nothing I have ever seen compares to this. It was amazing. Views back to the north and to the south. The beachs just stretching  to the horizon. We kept stopping every 5 minutes to keep looking out it was that beautiful and yet we kept climbing the mountain into a massive cloud at the top. The descent then was just as beautiful with the mountains and beaches again stretching for miles out if sight. Soon we had to pass through the city of Danang and from there the world heritage sight of Hoi An lay only 30km away so we were on it's doorstep. We arrived after in the evening after having an amazing day on the road, the most amazing part of it so far. Ho Chi Minh is now only 950km away.