From Hoi An we wanted to
go to Hue but not by bus again but by motorbike because it is
supposed to be one of the nicest rides of the whole track from Ho Chi
Minh to Hanoi. So we rented three motorbikes with four people to ride
the only 160 Kilometers up north, which took us nine hours after all.
We first went to a
National Park that is located on a peninsula just in front of Danang
and is for some reason not visited by tourists at all.
Expect of two resorts on the entrance and a radar station on the highest top the Rainforest is untouched and just cut through by two concrete streets that are only visible at the part where the motorbike wheels keep the plants from overgrowing the road completely.
Expect of two resorts on the entrance and a radar station on the highest top the Rainforest is untouched and just cut through by two concrete streets that are only visible at the part where the motorbike wheels keep the plants from overgrowing the road completely.
So you are riding through
the forest but still on an easily drivable road and after getting to
the top where the radar station is, you can enjoy an extraordinary
view over the whole bay and the mountains enclosing it from the other
side. A small both that sold ice cold beer made it perfect.
After that little detour we went straight back to the big street that should lead us to Hue and followed it until the trucks use a tunnel and we used a mountain pass to cross the mountains. It was hard to drive longer than 10 to 15 minutes because there are so many scenic watch-outs on the side of the road. When the mountain road meets up with the High Way that comes from the tunnel again, the really nice part of the ride is over because after the last 60 Kilometers are still under construction and you have to share the road with a lot of reckless driving trucks and always adapt to the changing stages of the road being built.
Still it's impressive and when we stopped for some food just 10 Kilometers out of Hue and had Vietnamese Noodle soup with fresh noodles a woman rolled, cut and boiled for us within a minute. Our faces where all so covered in dust that, my finger would leave a white stripe when I would touch my face.
I was really happy to eventually get to Hue because after the long ride in long pants, a long sleeved shirt and proper shoes, everything was soaked in sweat or it's salty remains and I was obviously also happy that I got there save.
The city of Hue was not to interesting as I though, they have the Citadel which is the biggest tourist attraction, but only seemed a little overpriced after going in and only finding a vast area of still destroyed buildings from the Vietnam War and Buddhas every now and then. The much cooler thing was a abandoned Water park about half an hour out of town, which isn't cared for since a couple of years because apparently a child drowned. That means, you have a complex of Aquariums that ran dry over the years with the bones of it's inhabitants on top of the dry sand and water slides that are getting taken back by nature but you can still climb up. A really special but also a little creepy place because there is none in the huge area.
The water park is the main thing
that we wanted to see in Hue so we continued to Phong Nah Ke National
Park after two nights in Hue.
After that little detour we went straight back to the big street that should lead us to Hue and followed it until the trucks use a tunnel and we used a mountain pass to cross the mountains. It was hard to drive longer than 10 to 15 minutes because there are so many scenic watch-outs on the side of the road. When the mountain road meets up with the High Way that comes from the tunnel again, the really nice part of the ride is over because after the last 60 Kilometers are still under construction and you have to share the road with a lot of reckless driving trucks and always adapt to the changing stages of the road being built.
Still it's impressive and when we stopped for some food just 10 Kilometers out of Hue and had Vietnamese Noodle soup with fresh noodles a woman rolled, cut and boiled for us within a minute. Our faces where all so covered in dust that, my finger would leave a white stripe when I would touch my face.
I was really happy to eventually get to Hue because after the long ride in long pants, a long sleeved shirt and proper shoes, everything was soaked in sweat or it's salty remains and I was obviously also happy that I got there save.
The city of Hue was not to interesting as I though, they have the Citadel which is the biggest tourist attraction, but only seemed a little overpriced after going in and only finding a vast area of still destroyed buildings from the Vietnam War and Buddhas every now and then. The much cooler thing was a abandoned Water park about half an hour out of town, which isn't cared for since a couple of years because apparently a child drowned. That means, you have a complex of Aquariums that ran dry over the years with the bones of it's inhabitants on top of the dry sand and water slides that are getting taken back by nature but you can still climb up. A really special but also a little creepy place because there is none in the huge area.
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