• Dean ParhamThailand/Vietnam 2025Traveler
    The view from the breakfast place
    1A funicular takes you to the different levels of the resortThere's a monkey theme as real live ones live around the place1Slip, slop, slap and don't care if you look stupidThe toilet gives an impression of the scale of things

    Now in 'nam

    March 14, 2025 in Vietnam ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    Travel day yesterday. The boat returned to its home embarkation point. We took a 3.5 hour bus trip to Bangkok airport and waited a few hours before taking a Thai Vietjet flight to Da Nang in Vietnam 🇻🇳. Another 45 minutes or so to the hotel out on a peninsula on the outskirts of town.
    It's a damn flash resort on the beach. Our cabin on the boat would fit into the bathroom in our room.
    We went straight to an excellent dinner.
    It's all very luxurious, which gives me a little pause as to whether this is the way to interact with our Asian neighbours. But here now, I guess (he says from his sunlounger under the umbrella on the beach).
    A bit cooler here, but still humid.    Read more