Well Vietnam is turning out to be a bit of a wet blanket. It rains here like I've never seen before. Debs and I booked a trip along the Perfume river in Hue yesterday to go and visit a bunch of temples and pagodas along the way. One of these happened to be Thien Mu where the monks all self-immolated themselves in the 60s but that was perhaps the only interesting thing about any of them. They haven't really got the money over here to look after things so all the attractions are falling down or have already.
It rained so hard all day that we could barely see each other let alone anything else (it was that bad that we both bought kaguls but still got wet and I broke my second umbrella of the holiday). There was one really exciting moment when we had to get on the back of motorbike taxis and scramble along dirt tracks for a few kilometres to get from the boat to one of the temples. There was about a metre of mud on the track and we were slipping and sliding everywhere along it. I actually couldn't believe the woman driving me managed to keep us up! Oh and we thought one of the temples was haunted due to unexplained noises and saw the biggest snake I've come across yet. Unfortunately Farmer Tang wasn't there this time to beat it into a frenzy but it was mildly exciting none the less.
The last couple of days before that were spent in Hanoi capital and then on a boat out to Halong Bay where we went round a cave called the 'A-MAZING' or 'SU-PRISING' cave. The only thing that really interested anyone was the most falic shaped rock I have ever seen. Really, I'll show a photo on the next blog. Our guides Do-In and Be-In were great, the former just there for Debs and I because we wanted to do the special activities. He took us to a floating fish farm where we drank some disgusting tea and some rather better sticky rice spirit that his wife brewed up. The local fella wanted us to stay for lunch and smoke his bong, but we already had a disgusting meal booked in on the boat as part of the tour so we had to decline.
Not much else to report other than I cooked myself lying on deck the other day (even though we never saw the sun) and have been wincing every time I've picked up my bag since. We're currently in Hoi'An having arrived on a coach this avo and are staying in perhaps the nicest hotel I have ever set foot in and had to pay myself. The cherry on the top is that it's costing us about 8 pounds each! So 2 nights here and then off to Ho Chi Mihn where we plan to visit VietCong tunnels and fire off big guns. Will let you know how it all goes. As long as the sun comes out soon I'll be as happy as Larry. Otherwise we'll ditch this bog and get off to Thailand ASAP to get our PADIs!
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All will be glad to hear that purchase of a cow is not necessary to fire off AK47s. Just balls of steel from what I hear!
I have been told you can buy cows and fire bazookas at them but it's not really my cup of tea!
P.S. The whole world can see this blog. Info about bill payments is probably going to have the audience heckling before long.
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