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I have no idea how many people are reading my blog and who. But maybe some non german-speaking friends would like to follow my journey(s) as well, so I have decided to continue this in English. I know my english skills are far from perfect but it should be enough for everybody to understand me and I am trying to improve :) I was giving this some thinking today (on the bus ride from Hoi An to Hue where I actually thought a lot about the world and my life and what to do with it etc.) and came to the conclusion that I don't know anybody who won't feel comfortable with me writing in English - my little baby sister and brother are no longer babies at all, but 16 and 18 years old (whenever this happened!?).
Maybe I am going to translate the other blog entries when I find the time and have a better internet connection. Uploading the photos took nearly as long as downloading some simple things in Raffaels flat - and at least he will know that this means REALLY long.
Alright, today I got up early and enjoyed the wonderful breakfast in our hotel in Hoi An for the last time. Of course I will come back for my honeymoon (as I promised some lady who wanted to sell me lots of bracelets on the Pass today - I managed to buy only two) - yeah, we will see. I really like the coffee here in Vietnam. It is different to the one in Germany, but in a positive way - I need only a little milk and sugar to find it tasty (and normally I need quite a lot as some of you probably know ;) ). So I ate scambled eggs with baguette and pineapple pancakes and drank a lot of coffee and guave juice (it's green and really sweet, but mixed with water a nice refreshment) until we were picked up from the hotel at 8:30.
Our journey from Hoi An to Hue took about 4 hours. We crossed the Hai Van Pass, which gave us some spectecular views on the sea, surrounded my mountains, it was really beautiful (see extra-photoalbum). On the top we stopped for some minutes to have an look around, take photos and (in my case) buy some gifts I don't really need because the sellers are so nice and I feel so sorry for them.
This is really hard for me. To live with the knowledge that I am just so lucky concerning some things (school education for free, parents who support me with my studies, nice jobs that give me enough money to travel around the world) and that these people have to worry about their children's future and about tonight's dinner. Well, the world may be unfair. But then I am supposed to do something about it! And I want to, not only by buying something from them. I would like to improve this world a little bit and although I cannot save all people, maybe I can try and improve the life for some. We will see.
At 12:30 we arrived in Hue, checked in and had lunch at a restaurant nearby. I ordered crispy noodels with egg and vegetables, which was quite a fail because they were really fried and far to fatty, so I ate only the vegetables and egg. At 14:30 our motorbike tour started. Beside me, 3 other girls from my group joined the tour and so did about 10 others from a similar travel group. We were picked up by the motorcycle drivers. There was a guide who was always driving in the front and then came all the others in a line. There was one motorbike + driver for each of us, we sat down behind them on the bike and had our hands on his shoulders. I had never driven on a motorbike before, so this was quite an experience. And it was absoluty supercool! We stopped at some places, to visit the king's tomb, to see the parfume river from a nice viewpoint in the forest and to visit a buddhistic temple. At 6 pm we were back at the hotel and Melanie and I decided to take a bath in the pool on the hotel's roof to cool down a little. Afterwards the whole group went to a fancy restaurant for dinner. It was a really nice place, they had different kinds of food (after the fail at lunch I just went for a safe pizza), music which could have been the New Zealand Playlist (sorry, insider - meaning loads of good songs), perfect service and a pool table. But the best thing was that on each table they had a game which you probably all know: There are a lot of something like toy blocks (Bauklötze), but a bit longer and more flat. At the beginning they are build up in a block and then everyone (in a turn) has to take one of them out and put it to the top - until it crashes at some point. And of course you don't want to be the one causing the crash. So we played this game and developed some expert skills while waiting for the food and afterswards - really nice idea :)
After playing some pool (I am really, really bad but we still won) we went to the hotel and now I am going to sleep :) Tomorrow we will take a look at some citadelles in Hue and in the afternoon we will take the third nighttrain to Hanoi, this time about 14 hours... and then 4 more hours in the bus because we are going directly to Halong Bay. Which looks a little bit like Milford Sound on the pictures, so I am expecting quite a lot! Bye bye until then!
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