Fore-Tracks

Today was a fairly active and busy day.  It started by getting up at 5am for a 8am flight  from Saigon to Da Nang.  We were staying at a Beach Resort in Hoi An but made many stops before we actually got there.  First was just a brief stop at China Beach, an important location during the war.  Then we took an unscheduled stop and tour to the pagoda on Marble Mountain.  Which had Buddha shrines almost 2000 years old that were built in to caves,  So that was a climb both up and down the mountain  but was unlike anything I have ever seen before.  After lunch we took a two hour walking tour of Hoi An, which is just an old port town,  The heat and humidity continue to be high.  Tomorrow we will spend the morning at the resort, not checking out until noon, then we drive north to the city of Hue.  There we will get in to more of the ancient culture of the area,