Travels in Vietnam

N  82  Danang Part 2

After all of us had come back we drove to the city along the beach road to check into our hotel.

After dinner that night we went to visit the famous Dragon Bridge . With colours changing every few minutes it is really pretty and impressive. Lighted boats were also ferrying in the Han River below it.We could also see a ferris wheel and  the Han River Bridge which is a swing bridge that  swings open in the daytime and swings shut at night to allow shipping traffic to pass along the river.   Our driver told us there are 8 bridges in Danang. So I would like to call Danang a city of bridges and oh… also a city of lights because we saw lights everywhere . It is very well lighted. I felt thankful that we had chosen to visit the bridge at night time.

Because Danang is on the coast and we had booked a hotel on the beach we had imagined that we would have some activities on the beach , but because of the weather this was not to be. From the next day it was raining that we can’t even go to the seaside. We had chosen the wrong time to come to this part. (we heard from June to September is OK )So we had to be contented by just looking at the windy and gloomy sea.

After we came back from Hoi An , lastly we visited the statue of the Goddess of Mercy. It is on a hill not far from the city. The rain had not stopped but even became heavier, so that  we had to get down in the downpour with umbrellas and ponchos. We had to cross a wide courtyard to where the statue stand, and because rainwater was flowing over the tiles even our walking shoes  got soaked . So after paying homage to the Goddess (ours or not ) we did not spend much time there and got back into our car to come back to the hotel.

Danang had been in my memory since long ago. Maybe from the time of US- Vietnam war. It had been home to a major air base used by both the South Vietnamese and US Air Force then. I had not dreamt of visiting it . Some people also say that there are not much to see in Danang. That is not true. In my opinion every place  we haven’t been to is worth a visit. Whether it be in our own country or abroad. Danang is a place new to me and I am contented to visit it and I also thank my fate that had enabled me to do so .

( a large part of my thanks goes to my husband USTM who takes care of all the expenses )