Vu picked us up at the hotel for the ride to Da Nang airport where Peter was waiting to assist with the check-in for our flight to Ho Chi Minh City. Peter has been great and is our favorite guide so far. As with all of our guides, he has intimate stories of the war…
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We had an all-day cooking class today with Red Bridge Cookery in Hoi An. There were five of us today – Mimi, our instructor, and a couple and their adult daughter from Germany. We started the class with a drive of about 30 minutes to ‘Tra Que Vegetable Village’, a commune of local organic farmers. …
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Our day started with a tour of the My Son ruins, a little over an hour drive from Hoi An. My Son was once the intellectual and religious center of the Cham civilization which ruled central & southern Vietnam for centuries. Built between the 4th and 13th centuries, the complex is perhaps the longest inhabited…
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We headed south out of Hue for the 3-hour drive down famous Highway 1 to Hoi An. Along the route is Dam Lang Co, a fishing village, where we stopped lakeside for a ‘Happy Room’ visit and refreshments. A big hit was the coconut coffee – excellent! The drive followed the coast of the East…
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