The night bus to Hue was awesome, I slept the whole way. It was my best and longest night sleep for weeks.
Hue was not so great. It was an eventful 24 hours but only midly fun. I figured I could see all the citys sights in 1 day if I just hired a bike and cruised round. I started off about 11 and rode around the citadel for a while. A Vietnamese couple rode next to me on their moped and we had a little chat. They invited me for a beer which sounded very pleasant and I thought they were just really nice people. We had lunch and they tried to get me to buy a suit from their tailor which was for more expensive than here in Hoi An even though they tried to tell me Hoi An was $300 for a suit!! We ended up having lunch which they made me pay for [275,00 VND/11 GBP]!! They tried to get me to ring them up later for more beer and talking but I decided getting screwed over once was enough for the day.
The citadel was suitably boring and I couldn't bear the pain of the bike seat to ride to the other sights I had planned. So I ended up playing football with the local school kids for about an hour which was great, if very sweaty and tiring.
The next morning at 8am I headed for Hoi An. It is a 3.5 hour bus ride and I checked into a small hostel in a 2 man dorm. That day I just chilled out and went to the beach. There is a beach party every night here and I went to that on my first night. It was cool but the next day I woke up at 2pm. So I basically did nothing for the whole day. Watched a few films and met up with Ross and Paul from the Ha Long Bay tour.
Today I met them again and we hired bikes to ride to the ruins that are 40km out of the city. I got some cool photos and the ride was nice. I think I may have to do my CBT this summer when I get home.
Well, the power cut out as I was typing that yesterday so I can't remember what else I was going to say.
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