On To Hoi An

The next stop on our Vietnamese itinerary was Hoi An, further down the coast. We had read that the train ride from Hue to Danang was scenic--the coast--and from there the hotel in Hoi An would send us a cab for the remaining few miles. Unfortunately, the hotel in Hue booked us seats on the wrong side, so we got a good look at rice paddies, mountains, the usual pastoral squalor, and so forth, not the coast; but Vicki did manage a few pix. Danang is of course a major modern metropolitan area which we got to see from the cab and also from the air a couple days later...

Hue train station; closed for renovation

So we boarded here

Aboard car #2; wrong side

For much of the 2 hour ride, we were subjected to Vietnamese  "stand-up"
comedy; not in English too

Coastline; not all that great

We've seen a lot of coastlines

Danang in the distance

The one thing we wanted to see in Danang, the dragon bridge

Thus

Driving through Danang

And its miles-long beach

Hotels, condos, everything, all down the beach

Marble Mountains; and what's left of them

Thus; mile upon mile of statuary, formerly mountains

Upon mile

Our hotel in Hoi An

More of the French colonial style Vicki likes

Nice room, nice staff...