Easy Riders: Part 2

Met Hung at 8.30 and we went for a tour round the local area on his brand new Honda: less than 1 month old, $2,800, a fortune here. First stop another pagoda (I think I am now all pagoda'd out) but they had a fantastic collection of gnomes outside that beats anything our neighbours have hands down!



We then took in: terrace farming, a flower farm, mushroom farm, fish farm, rice wine making (and distillation to rice vodka, wow). Then we drove for some miles with the most beautiful scent in the air, I thought it was honeysuckle but it was this plant, do you know what it is? (Katherine Dobie will know because they probably have this on her plantations in Carolina)?



The best coffee in Vietnam is first fed to a breed of weasel, the droppings are then collected and roasted to produce the premium variety....I gave it a pass.



We then went to a silk factory, waterfalls, a typical Vietnamese restaurant, went trecking through the forest, and visited the Gaudi inspired Crazy House. You can stay here for $15 a night and the rooms are all irregular, organic shapes with animal themes like this.



Got back exhausted but saw so much in one day. Now moving on, a 7 hour bus ride to HCMC where it is reported to be VERY hot.