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- 7 Feb 2020, 8:08 PTG
- 🌙 22 °C
- Altitud: 13 m
- VietnamThành Phố Đà NẵngPhường Mỹ ThànhBãi Tắm Mỹ Khê16°3’50” N 108°14’40” E
Scoot, scoot - beep beep!
7 Februari 2020, Vietnam ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
Today after breakfast, we met Sam and Pete at their hotel and rented two scooters (or motor bikes) for the day and took off around 9am on our adventure. We drove through the downtown area, dodging cars, trucks and other bikes while enduring the constant tooting of horns - traffic is crazy here, but I think people blow their horns as a courtesy to say “here I am, get outta my way”!! 😳🤣🤣. We started the climb up the Hai Van Pass, also known as the Ocean Cloud Pass, where the traffic was lighter and the views spectacular. We made a few photo stops before beginning our descent down into lovely towns and villages and some amazing beach views. We were looking for a destination we thought was called a Elephant Falls, made a few stops to attempt to ask for directions, and tried to see if Google Maps could help but didn’t have a lot of luck! After a bit of back and forth driving, we found the turnoff and headed through a cute village, up a dirt road and arrived at a parking lot, where the young girl said we had to pay to hike up the hill for 5 minutes to the destination (these must have been Vietnamese minutes, cos it was way longer!). When we got to the top, there were really no falls, but lots of big rocks with water pools that descended in small dribbles down to the next set of pools, and what appeared to be a whole bunch of shack restaurants - not what we expected to find! (We later discovered the place we found was called Elephant Springs, and many reviewers on TripAdvisor also commented on what a disappointment it was!). Oh well, nothing ventured!
We decided to head back the way we came and found the beautiful Lang Co beach, where we stopped for a fantastic lunch and wet our whistles! I had the best mango juice I’ve ever had, and the food they served was so delicious! They had a couple of swings on the beach, so Sam and I reverted to our childhoods and had a good old swing!
We left there and headed back up the pass, down the other side, and through the downtown area again. Sam and Pete decided they wanted to go see the Dragon Bridge, so we parted ways, and Dave and I took off to go see the Lady Buddha statue on the other side of the bay from where we are staying. This is the tallest Buddha statue in Vietnam at a height of 67 metres - equivalent to a 30 storey building. It stands on a mountain facing the sea and is truly magnificent! We didn’t go inside, but apparently there are 17 floors that can be climbed all the way to the statues hat. The Linh Ung pagoda is in the same grounds as the statue as well as an impressive collection of statues and topiaries. By the time we had looked around, the sun was starting to go down so we headed back to drop off our motorbikes and arrived back at our hotel around 6pm after a long but really great day!Baca lagi
Looks like you are having an amazing time. Elmer is already looking into a trip. LA
Fantastic! The Lady Buddha statue is beautiful, and the sunset is stunning.
Pengembara Smiling as i am reading this Viv 😊happy memories- Sam