We get off the train and find a guy to help us with our bags. He carts us to the front and we walk outside looking for our family friend Chu Hai. My uncle calls him and we see him! We say our greetings and he calls 2 cabs for us. My uncle's friend is going to her family's house and our hotel takes us to the hotel. We get to the hotel and they tell us that only one of the rooms are ready for us at that time so we take all our bags to the room and at this point ...

Breakfast in the hotel in Hue was really nice. They had a nice setup with all different kinds of Western foods and Vietnamese foods. We ate, packed and loaded up the car again and headed towards Da Nang. Uncle Binh had told stories to us about how they used to fish back in the day with a piece of net and 4 sticks that were attached to the net. They held it down in the water and waiting until the fish swam over the net and then they would lift it up and catch t...

It was about 6pm when we started driving. We were in a car that had a symbol like a Mazda but looked like a Yaris, not sure what kind of car it was. With 6 grown people in the car and 10 pieces of luggage tied to the top, the car's suspension was next to none. The car was weighed down and with every bump, we could feel it all the way up our spines. I sat and prayed to myself, "please don't let it start raining b/c our luggage are not covered and please let us get...

Hanoi for the day We get up at 7:30 am to start our day. We skip breakfast at the hotel but go straight to a hole in the wall down the street from our hotel known for their eel. They cook their eel one way but serve it 6 different ways all with clear noodles. We ordered a few eel patties to start, I ordered dry noodles, Eric ordered the stir fry noodles, Viet ordered the soup noodles all topped with eel and Uncle Binh ordered the eel congee. The eel was very ...

On Our Way To Hanoi We get breakfast at the hotel and head on our way back to Hanoi, slowly. The roads all have construction and there are people everywhere. People going to work, kids going to school in uniform, men working on the roads. So much to look at! Fields of rice with buffalo! Our first sight of water buffalo. We stop half way for what we thought was just a bathroom break but it was actually a tourist trap. It was a huge building full of knick-knack...