Day 6 – Amazing Race to Danang
This morning, we continued with our amaz
ing race – to Danang. At the reception, Van Anh was there to send us off. Our flight was scheduled to take off at 12:05pm. So reluctantly, we hired a cab to the airport and bit farewell to the wonderful city. But remember, “I’ll Be Back”!
At the airport after we checked in, the damn Jetstar counter announced flight delayed to 4:30pm. Delayed by 4 hours! What the *&%#@(*D=^#+!!!!! Bob went to the counter to “bang their table” and we were compensated with a token of 50,000 Dong each (around S$5), goodwill from Jetstar. But there was alternatively. Vietnam Airline is departing in an hour's time. The ticket will cost us S$100 each. And Bob has the cheek to ask me to cover his costs should I choose to take Vietnam Airline. So we decided to stay grounded in the airport. Many thanks to Jetstar, we will feedback and claim damages.
Danang – City Where Dream Comes True
Finally we disembarked at Danang in the evening. Firstly on
the weather – Danang has ideal weather. It is not as hot as HCM and not as cold as Ha Noi. From the map, Danang is located in between these two main cities and that explain the wonderful weather. Secondly, there was no currency exchange service at the airport. So I was running out of Dongs.
We hop into a meter-taxi and reached our 3-star hotel (Saigon Tourane Hotel, 5 Dong Da St., Danang City) in about 15min time. Danang’s traffic is also less massive as compared to HCM and Ha Noi. In sum, this town is really a peaceful town. Our friend Anna had already booked a hotel room for us. The hotel room was fantastic, the best so far. We washed up and send in our laundry. An hour later, Anna and her friend Sullie (if I remember correctly) were waiting for us with their bikes outside the hotel. So we rode off to a stretch of restaurants located beside the sea.
Bob told me that Danang being located along the coastal area is famous for cheap seafood. Singaporeans love seafood, don’t we? So Anna selected a restaurant and we ordered a few dishes of good seafood food such as big prawns, fried fish, cutter fish, chilli crabs, fried rice and Larue beer. The weather was perfect and the wave was strong. We really enjoy the dinner. To all Singaporeans friends out there, the restaurant setting there is definitely better than our East Coast seafood centre. The dinner cost us 1,300,000 Dong (around $S120) for four. Not expensive but not as cheap as I expected.
Unexpected Accident
After our dinner, we decided to go around the town area. Unfortunately, my dear friend Bob met with an accident – a motorbike accident right after we stepped out of the restaurant. I will skip the detail as it is unpleasant to share. There was blood all over his nose and mouth and abrasions on his hands. We have no choice but to send him to nearby hospital immediately. We need to determine if there is any internal injury. Cut the long story short, the doctor cleaned up his wound, gave him a jab and assessed no internal injury. So I paid 70,000 Dong for the consultation.
So Bob ended the day with pain all over whilst I ended with…. what we say in Chinese “哭笑不得” (cry also cannot, laugh also cannot). To make thing worst, because of his injury, Anna decided to cancel our next day’s trip to Hoi An. It was part of our itinerary. Sigh!
This morning, we continued with our amaz
ing race – to Danang. At the reception, Van Anh was there to send us off. Our flight was scheduled to take off at 12:05pm. So reluctantly, we hired a cab to the airport and bit farewell to the wonderful city. But remember, “I’ll Be Back”!At the airport after we checked in, the damn Jetstar counter announced flight delayed to 4:30pm. Delayed by 4 hours! What the *&%#@(*D=^#+!!!!! Bob went to the counter to “bang their table” and we were compensated with a token of 50,000 Dong each (around S$5), goodwill from Jetstar. But there was alternatively. Vietnam Airline is departing in an hour's time. The ticket will cost us S$100 each. And Bob has the cheek to ask me to cover his costs should I choose to take Vietnam Airline. So we decided to stay grounded in the airport. Many thanks to Jetstar, we will feedback and claim damages.
Danang – City Where Dream Comes True
Finally we disembarked at Danang in the evening. Firstly on
the weather – Danang has ideal weather. It is not as hot as HCM and not as cold as Ha Noi. From the map, Danang is located in between these two main cities and that explain the wonderful weather. Secondly, there was no currency exchange service at the airport. So I was running out of Dongs.We hop into a meter-taxi and reached our 3-star hotel (Saigon Tourane Hotel, 5 Dong Da St., Danang City) in about 15min time. Danang’s traffic is also less massive as compared to HCM and Ha Noi. In sum, this town is really a peaceful town. Our friend Anna had already booked a hotel room for us. The hotel room was fantastic, the best so far. We washed up and send in our laundry. An hour later, Anna and her friend Sullie (if I remember correctly) were waiting for us with their bikes outside the hotel. So we rode off to a stretch of restaurants located beside the sea.
Bob told me that Danang being located along the coastal area is famous for cheap seafood. Singaporeans love seafood, don’t we? So Anna selected a restaurant and we ordered a few dishes of good seafood food such as big prawns, fried fish, cutter fish, chilli crabs, fried rice and Larue beer. The weather was perfect and the wave was strong. We really enjoy the dinner. To all Singaporeans friends out there, the restaurant setting there is definitely better than our East Coast seafood centre. The dinner cost us 1,300,000 Dong (around $S120) for four. Not expensive but not as cheap as I expected.
Unexpected Accident
After our dinner, we decided to go around the town area. Unfortunately, my dear friend Bob met with an accident – a motorbike accident right after we stepped out of the restaurant. I will skip the detail as it is unpleasant to share. There was blood all over his nose and mouth and abrasions on his hands. We have no choice but to send him to nearby hospital immediately. We need to determine if there is any internal injury. Cut the long story short, the doctor cleaned up his wound, gave him a jab and assessed no internal injury. So I paid 70,000 Dong for the consultation.
So Bob ended the day with pain all over whilst I ended with…. what we say in Chinese “哭笑不得” (cry also cannot, laugh also cannot). To make thing worst, because of his injury, Anna decided to cancel our next day’s trip to Hoi An. It was part of our itinerary. Sigh!
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