Da Nang - Day 3

Wednesday 9th April

 

We were lucky enough to get the morning off today after a busy two and a bit days overseas.

I got up for breakfast at 9 am before heading back to the tailors with Phil to get measurements done for our suits. It seems like the humidity is getting more and more intense every day.

 

We headed back to the hotel via a different route and found a few interesting food places and little shops we hadn't seen before.

 

Back at the hotel I decided it was time to get a haircut so I wandered off by myself to a place I had seen around the corner.

 

For about $7 I got a good cut, I was a bit nervous when everyone was looking and laughing at me after things were said in Vietnamese.

 

A big group of us headed out to lunch at the same place as yesterday. We all met up the hotel at 1pm to walk to a different area of Da Nang to go out into the streets and observe the built form and function of this area.

 

The development and forms of living is very different from Adelaide.  Everyone on the street was friendly and inviting despite this area not being a tourist area. In hindsight we were probably a novelty to the locals.

 

Differing types of development

Matt, Rosie, Emily and I were in a group wandering through some of what is possibly proper Da Nang. We headed back to the hotel with enough time to relax out of the heat before a debrief session with the whole group.

 

On Friday we have group presentations so the majority of discussions were related to forming questions that we can present on.

 

Following the debrief a large group of us went for further discussions about the topics over some $1 beers (and cans of coke for some of us).

 

Tomorrow we are headed to Hoi An for the day.

 

-Nick