Motorbike Riding

Today we went for a motorbike tour!

Fortunately we were pillion passengers.

I have never been a motorbike person, the last time I was on the back of a bike on the road was when I was 16, and sadly the driver of that bike was killed only a year later. So it's never been my thing. Lance however has had motorbikes and was quite comfortable, in fact maybe even a bit excited. 

Seventeen of us whizzed through town and I managed to keep my eyes open when we barged through the intersections. A quick boat ride down the perfume river and a visit to a beautiful temple. The temples that we visited were baking hot and by the time the last one was finished we were all exhausted. I had a go at making incense, quiet tricky, but I mastered it. I had a bit of an upset tummy there and fortunately they had a reasonably clean  happy house. Well it was clean when I went in but it is hard to hover when you have the trots. 

Next stop was lunch at a temple where the monks live and they cooked for us. Of course it was all vegetarian and delicious.  I didn't eat much because of my tummy, and fortunately again I found a toilet that was clean when I got there and clean when I left. 

The motorbikes took us through a sort of housing village, the roads were only about 2 metres wides and more like paths than roads.  We roared through in a convoy, but at places the sound of the locust over powered the motorbike noise.  Hung took us to an arena where tigers and elephants used to do battle.  It was like a mini colosseum, except the spectators would stand up above around the walls.  They would declaw and de tooth the tiger to make it a fair match. Hardly very fair, but the tiger was seen as the bad one so they didn't want it to win.  My question is "how would they declaw and de tooth a tiger before the days of dart guns"?

By the time we returned to our hotel we were stinking hot.  Lance and I decided to miss the afternoon tour and the dinner so my tummy could have time to settle. Lance had been looking forward to a swim all day so we grabbed some towels and headed to the pool. Alas the pool was empty as they were cleaning it, bugger.  So we spent the afternoon with the aircon on full in our room.

The hotel has an amazing roof top bar that looks out over the city of Hue and we had a couple of drinks there before finding a restaurant close by for a pizza. That is as normal as we could find to give my tummy a break. I really need to sort it out because tomorrow we have a 4 hour bus ride to Hoi An.