These sandals were made for walking!!

Decided to have a bit of a rest day after yesterday’s adventures! After breakfast, we went for a walk along the beachfront - there is so much construction going on of hotels and apartments - looks like there will be lots of new places to stay in Da Nang in the not too distant future! Scoped out some restaurants for future dinners too! The weather is a bit cloudy today, but still nice and warm so a good day for walking!

Next we walked down to Sam and Pete’s hotel - they were leaving for Nah Trang today, so we had some refreshments with them, exchanged contact info and waved them off to the airport. We go to Nah Trang on Wednesday and will meet up with them again when we get there - by then they will know all the good places to go! 😜

Walked some of the side streets back to our hotel and had a bit of a rest. Our hotel included free foot massages in the price, so we made an appointment for 2pm at the spa and both had half an hour of relaxation and pampering. We went for a quick lunch after that then came back to get ready for an evening in downtown Da Nang.

We left our hotel around 5pm and headed towards the beautiful Dragon Bridge, a famous landmark here with some special features! We walked across the bridge then took a small tunnel underneath to the downtown area - there are so many lights in the city, and at dark, the buildings, bridges and boats on the river put on an amazing display. We walked around some of the streets and looked in a few shops and a market. The flowers on display are absolutely gorgeous - I asked the price of one arrangement of at least 2 and a half dozen roses, and they were 300,000 Vietnamese Dong - that’s around $17 Canadian! 😳. We stopped for a glass of wine, then continued walking until we came to a restaurant called Draft Beer, which had an awesome view of the Dragon Bridge and played great music videos on a big screen in the lounge. Had a nice dinner then walked down to watch the “special features” of the Dragon Bridge. The Bridge is the longest in Vietnam (666 metres) and offers a dazzling display of lights which change colour sequentially. On weekends and annual festivities, the head of the Dragon breathes fire and spits out water - the Bridge is closed to traffic around 8:55 and the show starts at 9 for about 8 minutes. What a spectacular display! There were thousands of people lining the streets, in restaurants, on boats or even on the bridge to watch (although from the way some of them were running during the water spitting, I think we were better off at our vantage point! 😂). Da Nang is truly a beautiful city with something to offer everyone.

So, after the fire show, we walked back to our hotel. Good thing we had those foot massages, as these feet clocked 18.4 kms today! Time for sleep! 😴Read more