Picked up from hotel at 8.00 am for trip to the Unesco Heritage-listed site of My Son, location for My Son Champa Temples.
The Champa temples were built between the 7th and 13th century and there were originally 70 in number before the Viet Cong based themselves there in the 1960's.
Only 20 temples, in varying states of restoration, now remain, courtesy of the pounding from USA B52 bombers. Craters around the site bear testimony to this episode.
The drive though the lushly wooded hills to My Son certainly made a welcome change from the congestion of the cities.
Arrive back in Hoi An to catch 2.00 pm bus to Hue. Uneventful trip north ,especially since the previously spectacular road over the Hai Van Pass has been replaced by a more practical tunnel through the Truong Son Range.
Reach Hue late afternoon and decide to have meal at L'Auberge restaurant and have early night after long, fairly tiring day.
The Obese Ferret.
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