Tuesday, March 11, 2014

"VERY NICE": photos along Vietnam's coast





The coastal city of Nha Trang: we had a rest period here. I ate of yogurts and drank of an orchid-garnished cocktail, played Tossed At Sea in the beautiful ocean, and slept in until 6:30am! Lovely, all around.








Leaving the city of Nha Trang (all choked with motor bikes and buses it was), this is the traffic we encountered. What a contrast!









Riding in the mountain pass of Co Ma. See the gray! We were essentially in the clouds!  Stopped to"ask" for some directions--ie, pointing at our map and grunting.  People love to show us their babies, even though we are thoroughly perplexing to said babies.







A very classic morning view: rice gloriously green, mountains through the distant haze, palm trees.








Very small fishing village north of Nha Trang. The playful painted fishing boats make me happy.








We stayed in a small village near the shore. "Very Nice", hm?  (this is the guest house featured in the video) The room cost us 100,000 dong, which is $4.30! The room came with toilet paper, air conditioning, only a few mosquitoes, and was decently clean.









Kissing smooth pavement after finishing a dastardly, decidedly too long, stretch of gravel. Bicycling on gravel and road construction: where you see your life of near future spread out before you, in dreadful unending continuation. Jittering and wallowing along, jolted by grumpy stones. This is an exhausting way to pick along on a road bicycle. I shall stop taking pavement for granted!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It looks like you have a great tan. curt