Day 61

Da Nang > Phong Nha

Very uneventful day. We woke up, packed our stuff and checked out. We wandered about and found some Banh Mi, before having some time to kill so we found a little café by the river and I had what was called a "custard shake". Curious to if it had anything to do with English custard I had to try it. It definitely wasn't custard and I have no idea what it was but it was very okay, with some chunks of coconut in there to keep me occupied.

We trekked back to the hostel to pick up our bags then headed to the bus station. Our bus was scheduled at 2 and we ended up waiting on some miniature seats for another 50 minutes for our bus to actually turn up. Atleast it turned up though. We picked our seats and got ready to settle in for a long journey. Turns out settling in was not in the plan as when we arrived at Hue, we had to change bus with only a quick stop allowed for the bathroom. We boarded our new bus which was pretty much similar but had a toilet on board. Great I thought to myself. That was until the first person flushed the toilet and created what can only be described as a gas chamber choking us with the scent on their shit. And then every single time someone flushed after that, it'd leave a sickening aroma in the air for about 5 minutes. I got a bit of rest but managed to run out of my daily allowance for data. Somehow I burned througy 5GB in 24 hours. Then I remembered I was up till 3am the night before and must have been on my data the whole time... oops. Luckily I had some music downloaded and spent the rest of the time making packing lists - how exciting.

We stopped at a rest stop for a little while and got some very questionable food before hopping back on and eventually arriving. We got picked up from the road by our hostel - with Alfie giving them "bright yellow shorts" as a description to look out for. When we arrived we were all quite tired so headed to bed fairly quickly.Leggi altro