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It just gets better and better here

 Since I last blogged we have travelled from the north to the central area of Vietnam. We arrived at the airport to find that the flight was cancelled and we had to drive a further 3 hours to another airport where we caught another flight. The company who are looking after us have been brilliant and efficient and quickly sorted everything out with any stress. We flew to danang and drove to hoi ann which is so pretty and our hotel was paradise   It was very tropical iin design ( anantara hotel hoi ann) with many Asian influences.  Again we had flowers arranged on the bed and drinks. We are being very spoilt. I hope you received the photos of our cabin on the boat with the rose bouquet and petals and chocolate on the bed.

 Yesterday we went to my son ancient Hindu ruins and saw a concert with traditional music dancing and singing which was very nice. The countryside was beautiful. We saw rice paddi fields wher people were weeding their rice paddi fields   They harvest the rice using water buffaloes.

We then visited a Vietnamese house which was hundreds of years old and had water levels of the floods in the house of up to 8 ft or 3 mtrs. They had to pull the furniture up to the top floor through a trap door in the ceiling. We have seen many temples and shrines which are very ornate

The Japanese covered bridge in Hanoi is very lovely in the old town of hoi ann and the night market are great to visit they sell just about everything in their tiny shops and stalls. There are a great many street food stalls but we didn’t eat at any of them. At night we went to the old town in the dark and it was transformed into a fairyland paradise of little lanterns handing across the street and from the trees. There were also many pretty colored containers with candles in all floating alight down the river. We had a fabulous meal watching it all  breakfast was in an open sided restaurant overlooking palm trees beautiful flowers and the water.

We are now off to hue and have just been to china beach where the Americans came for r and r during the Vietnam war. It features in good morning Vietnam.  We went over the river Han which has a huge yellow dragon swimming the whole length of the bridge.

We have had very good guides and drivers and I am glad we chose not to go on a tour with anyone else because there are only us the guide makes the tours more personal to us.