This day was a bit of a killer,we had to travel about 300km and were knackered by the end of it! There was some stunning scenery though, and we still made a few stops. Our first was a beautiful view where Tan pointed out that all the greenery we could see were coffee trees! We also spotted some Vietnamese fire engines, one of which was army camouflage!
Next stop was a local person's house where they made and dried rice noodles. There was a giant machine that the ladies mashed the paste into, then it dropped out the bottom, was cut and then set out to dry in the sun. Tam kept making us eat it even though it was really dry and bitty.
Next we stopped at a pepper plantation, and again Tan made us eat some! They were very, very hot! We also saw a cashew tree, which was even more bizarre than the pineapple! Cashews grow pocking out the bottom of a peach-like fruit, which wasn't how I imagined them at all. We also discovered mimosa, and spent the rest of the trip spotting it and poking it endlessly! We popped down the road to a household drying coffee beans outside their house, and Tan pulled up some peanuts for us.
Next stop was an endless rubber plantation, where some really friendly ladies let us take pictures with their (very heavy) buckets of sap. Then we stopped at Sea Lake, where we met a guy eager to practice his English who advised us to visit his hometown, Hue.
We eventually arrived at the hotel with very sore bums, and after a failed attempt to find the local market, we went to bed.
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