Gerard, Jo, Louise and I were booked to fly to Danang at 5pm, so we had the day to kill. In the morning Neal and Erin went off to the Perfume Pagoda and River, and Selena went off on her own to explore somewhere..!?

We called at our travel agent to pay for the tickets and we arranged to leave our bags there for the day. But damn it, when we returned he had just remembered that they were closing early cos of the holiday, so that left us with all our packs for the day when we had been intending to go shopping and do stuff! We had a great lunch at this great cafe called the 'Kangaroo Cafe'. Though quite expensive (in Vietnamese terms), it is so yummy! Let me just tell you a little about money in Vietnam. I was a millionaire in Vietnam! For 10,000 yen, you get about 1.4 million dong! Yay! And the money just keeps going and going - it's like and energiser battery! When we complained that the beers were 25000 dong on new years, we were complaining about spending 170 yen instead of 125 yen! When we went for dinner and decided it was expensive at 60,000 dong, we were in fact saying 420 yen was too expensive and would prefer going to a 30,000 dong (210 yen) per meal restaurant!! Hell yeah, Vietnam was cheap!

Okay, I'm back. So after lunch Louise and I played bag watchers while Gerard and Jo went to the Temple of Lit. Apart from the odd street seller trying to sell us whatever they had, we were relatively undisturbed. and no one tried to do and run-by and steal our bags! Despite being a lovely person and quite trusting, I found it difficult to trust some Vietnamese and always felt like we were going to be ripped off!

So, after an hour flight we got to Danang and expecting there to be heaps of hotel people there wanting us to stay at there hotel, we walked outside to nothing! Great! But we managed to get a taxi with a lone JET traveller to Hoi An. Louise was put off by her because she bought a Japanese guide book..!? Anyway, the taxi driver took us to a particular hotel (always after their commission), and it was good enough to stay at, so we did.