HUE - DAI VILLAGE; Motorbiking in heavy storms
Hit the streets for a delicious breakfast, yummie 2 plates for me! We were sitting on babychairs under a sail but it ddn't help that much against the massive amount of rain. First plan of the day, find a ank that will help me with my issue, otherwise I'm stuck to Twan for a long time because I owe him some money. After 6 banks and 1,5 hour it finally worked at the Military Bank.All ythe other ones had excuses like no machine for craditcard, national softwareproblems with Mastercard at the moment, etc. But when you keep smiling and make friends with locals who can translate (many thanks to Twan) it will finally work. Damn, I'm happy now.
I visited the Royal Enclosure and the Forbidden Purple City in Hue (The City surrounded by walls). The FOrbidden City was not so attractive, but it is World Cultural Heritage site. Many old tourists and they think it was funny that I was walking around in my orange t-shirt wehile it was raining cats and dogs, so I was the main atrraction for them. Also visited some old Kingdom pagoda near the Perfume River.
The road to Twan's family was long and wet. We stopped at several batlefields (former border of South and North Vietnam) and a huge War Cemetary. So he told me more about the history. I think this is a part of travelling in these countries.
All of a sudden Twan stopped on the middle of the road, he jsut saw somebody selling I wild sort of jungle pig. Just cut to pieces, in the middle of the rain and full with flies...but he bought the damn thing for dinner. In the evening we arrived at the village. A bumpy, slippery and very muddy dirtroad of 1,5km was the last part. And it was dark. His family lives in the countryside on a farm. Met his family and nobody is speaking English so this was funny communicating with Twan as a translator. Shower was oldskool; just a tub and throw the water over your head whaha! Having dinner with the big family was really cool, just a big carpet on the floor and bowls with food everywhere. They had so much fun watching my style of eating traditional food with chopsticks. After a few local Whisky's it was time to sleep after this long day (more then 200km in the storms). Sleeping was without a matras, but still okay.
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