This was the second port that Celebrity did not have a shuttle to the main cities as they were several hours away so we took a Celebrity tour that proved to be quite nice.
We first took a trip to the ton of Hoi An and stopped at a
local pottery village and then took a river cruise on a very small local boat
down the river to the major part of town.
The village was a remarkable well preserved example of a trading post
dating from the 15th to the 19 century. It was very real the way people lived then
and still do now.
At the main part of the new town, we visited an ancient
village bridge, a temple and several other interesting sights. We were a little hungry so we ate a few
snacks from the local street venders include a Mango pastry and skewered snake,
which was very good and not, it does not taste like chicken!!
Then it was on to a local restaurant for a 7 course lunch
that was very good.
After lunch we then drove to the town of Da Nang with a
photo tour of the city, including the famous China Beach was used in the Vietnam
War as an R & R place for our troops.
Right in the center of the town we took a pedal cab tour and
it was really fun. There was 1 pedal cab
which were really three-wheeled bicycles with a seat for each customer in the
front. Off we went down the main 6 land
main street with scooters everywhere, cars, truck and anything else on the
street. It was about a 30 minute tour
that was fun. I took a video that I will
post once we get to Singapore and you will see what we mean.
We visited a famous Pagoda and a huge 229’ tall Buddha
before taking the bus back to the ship, getting back after being gone for 10
hours.
We took quick showers and went to see the show which was a
cast production show featuring dances from the days of ballroom dancing and it
was probably the best production cast we have ever seen. The singers and dancers were all very, very
good.
Dinner was fine as usual and then it was onto the casino
where Barb was ahead and Ed had another great run. We also met some new blackjack friends and so
we should have some good table partners in future games.
Tomorrow we should be able to catch up on some sleep as we
have a see day.
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| A local street |
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| A lot of the newer houses with their shop in the front of the house |
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| In the pottery shop |
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| They type of boat we took |
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| That's our snack - snake on a stick!! |
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| 229 foot tall Buddha |
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| Ready for ourride |
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| A lot of traffic - we were also going faster than you could walk |
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A delivery person
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| Eating snack on a stick |
