A couple corrections from last post: 1. rau moung is a green vegetable; we were eating bun rieu. 2. Independence Hall is not the old US embassy; I don't know where I got that idea.
We are back from Hue. Hoi An and Hue were both great, though we had too little time. Our tour instead spent almost two days going to and from an enormous limestone cavern. It was huge, but not really better than caves I've seen in California and Arizona. It would have been very difficult getting around the sights in Hue without a tour though.
But I'm glad to be back on the street. We ate more snails, mussels, and shrimp (only recently seen swimming around in the front of the restaurant) last night, then we went to a huge outdoor night market. Phuong's friends picked us up on their scooters; I seriously thought I was going to die and I had to pry my hands off the seat grip when we arrived.
The weather in Saigon now is better than on our initial stop--it's still muggy but not as hot. Right now we just finished a feast at Chi Ha's parents' house, where I set a personal early point (11am) for drinking straight hard liquor, in this case grape-infused rice whiskey made by Ha's dad. It was quite tasty, with a flavor similar to cognac.
Today and tomorrow we are going to some points of historical interest. On Wednesday we are going to Vung Tau on the coast for a couple days. That's it for now, these Vietnamese key bindings are giving me a fit.
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