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January, Cua Tung to Quang Tri, 41km
Hoan My Hotel 250,000VND
On a day
that looked like winter, but felt like autumn, we cycled a coast road through
farmland, then through farmland and small towns to the city of Quang Tri. For
the first time really in Vietnam, it took us some time to find accommodation,
three guest houses rejecting us, two of them for unknown reasons, us rejecting
others as being too depressing. We finally checked into the first hotel we had
seen on entering town. They wanted 300,000VND. I was pretty chuffed with myself
for negotiating them down to 250,000VND only to find, via a rate card posted in
our room, that this was in fact their usual rate. We saw numerous basket boats
today. Woven from bamboo and sealed with tar or resin, these circular boats are
lightweight, flexible, inexpensive and attractive.

Cua Tung hotel room view

Between Cua Tung and Quang Tri - basket boats

Between Cua Tung and Quang Tri - basket boats

Between Cua Tung and Quang Tri

Between Cua Tung and Quang Tri

Between Cua Tung and Quang Tri

Between Cua Tung and Quang Tri