Off to Da Nang we go

Today was a travel day, so after a last breakfast at our lovely hotel in Hanoi, we got picked up by a driver who took us out to the airport to catch our one hour flight to Da Nang, on the east coast of Vietnam. The flight on Vietnam Airlines was great and we arrived just after 2pm, got picked up at the airport (the hotel arranges drivers for you) and got to our hotel just after 3. Very lovely weather here after the mist and cooler weather in the north - around 27 degrees and now we can put our sweaters and rain jackets away!

We took off on foot and walked the half block to the beach, then had a nice long walk along the water line, dipping our toes in the pleasantly warm sea! Da Nang is very different to Hanoi - lots of brightly lit hotels along the beach and more of a seaside feel than being in the big city. We walked past lots of places with tanks or big bowls filled with fish, lobster, prawns, crab and shellfish, which you can either buy by the kilo, or order fresh in a restaurant!

Got back to the hotel and ready to go out for dinner with Pete and Sam, who we met on the Ha Long Bay cruise - they got into Da Nang yesterday. Met up with them on the walkway next to the beach and wandered down a few side streets till we found a place to eat. The place we ended up at didn’t have wine, so we went down the street to a small grocery store and picked up a bottle and took it back to the restaurant! We had an amazing meal of Vietnamese specialties, and Sam and I enjoyed the wine while the guys had a couple of Tiger beers each, then ordered a pitcher of Bia Tuoi, which is made fresh daily with no preservatives and is quite popular in Vietnam. Had a lovely time, then parted ways with plans of renting scooters tomorrow to explore more of the area - another adventure to report tomorrow! 😊Read more