My Khe Beach and Da Nang

Well hello there. How the devil are you all?

On Sunday 15 April we departed Hanoi for Da Nang. We still hadn't fully recovered from the epic 3 day train journey that we put ourselves through at the beginning of our trip and therefore decided to fly. What? You don't expect me to slum it all of the time do you?

Our hotel was in My Khe beach which I have to say we had mistakenley assumed was walking distance from central Da Nang however it wa in fact a cab ride away (oops, my mistake).

My Khe beach (also known as China Beach) was used by American solders for a little rest and relaxtion during the war. It is quite undeveloped currently although judging by the construction sites it wont be long until it is.

The view from our hotel room

On Monday 16th we headed into Da Nang for the day to do a little sight seeing. The most interesting thing we saw was the Museum of Cham Sculpture which houses the best collection of Cham sculpture in the world (more on the Cham people in the next entry).

The Museum of Cham Sculpture

We did also hunt for the Ho Chi Minh Museum but after a very, very long walk (what is it with us and all this walking) in the searing heat, Gav lost it! He was walking no further and that was that. So after everything I've said about the dangerous roads and the motorbikes, what did we do? Yep, we got motorbikes back. I was holding onto the guy driving so tight that he was hysterically laughing at me (the only thing the girls here hold on to when they are on bikes is their sunglasses or hats). We made it in one piece though, phew.

Da Nang

We were not blown away with My Khe or Da Nang although there was nothing wrong with either place as such. A good thing about not having a strict itinerary is that we can just move on if we are not particularly enjoying ourselves and that's exactly what we did. We had origionally planned to stay for a week but in fact stayed for just two nights and on Tuesday 17th April we headed off to Hoi An.