From Đồng Hới to Huế

Good bye, Ocean View Homestay

It was blue and sunny! I had my slow drip Vietnamese Coffee in the garden of the Ocean View Homestay in Đồng Hới. It was a great day to drive down to Huế.

Good morning, sweety – see you again :-) Hard to say Adios to this little fluffy ball of a dog.

Time to hit the Road

Told the Google Lady that I wanted to go along the ocean as much as possible. She had her own ideas, but with some tweaking, we were good to go! Thank you, Trang, for the discount!!

Monument in Đồng Hới at the beach

OK! Why like this?? Seals? In Vietnam?

Getting from the coast to the main road in Đồng Hới. I shall take another road next time. Google Lady was fine with it. I had to go super slow and fight with the red dust

At the QL1 outside of Gia Ninh

Sports hall in Hồ Xá

One of the many Martyrs Cemeteries along the road

Soldier graveyard in Hải Chư

Every single one has a story

There are so many all over the country

The beach at Quốc Phòng

Another ruin along the coast road towards Giêm Hà. All over Vietnam, along the coast, I saw so many abandoned building projects. Not sure why they have so many of them here. They start the project and run out of money? Or was it not enough money to handle the local officials after they started to build? The other strange thing is that you see so many empty or almost empty hotels along the beach. It might be that I am not here for the season.

Somebody expected a lot of tourists here

Monument in Cửa Việt

They all look the same at the beach in Monument in Cửa Việt. How can you remember the one from the day before?? And how does that make you stand out?? STRANGE!!

War memorial in Cửa Việt

Another War Memorial in Phú Hội

Details of the Memorial – A Russian tank comes out of the waves!

The Grave Road

Took a left from the DT64 to an unnamed small road that leads into the rice fields. Beautiful Chinese graves all over the place! Small ones and very big ones. I have to do this part again next year!

Rice Field in Triệu Trạch

End of the road – but a good spot for some pictures

Grave in the Rice Fields

Graves in a rice field

War Cemetery in Triệu Trạch

Another one of those monuments along the road

And they are getting more and more interesting

Further down the road – a Duck pond

Cycling home after work

A lot of Churches as well

Nhà Thờ Giáo Xứ Nhất Tây

Nhà Thờ Giáo Xứ Nhất Đông

A lot of Graves

A few more minutes till Huế

Thanh An 2 Guesthouse in Huế

I was very happy to pick the Thanh An 2 Guesthouse in Hue. The owners are super friendly. The room was only $6, and breakfast was an extra $1. They made me a vegetarian breakfast, and the coffee was good. My room had no private bathroom – you have to go a few stairs down. But a super balcony. The hotel is on a small, dead-end street all the way at the end. This way it is super quiet during the day and night. And since the neighbors all have a lot of green on their balconies, it is nice to sit and relax on the balcony.

My bed at the Thanh An 2 Guesthouse in Hue