Dec 20 - Dec 26 2002

I left Nha Trang by train to Danang. Failed to get any useful sleep, but had enough life in me to check out Danang that afternoon. I purchased a reasonable quality CD/VCD/MP3 portable player for US$52, which I have since come to realise is about double what I could have got it for, despite my aggressive bargaining in getting the price down from $85.

I went through a very good museum populated with artefacts from the ancient Champa civilisation, the people of which populated the Central Vietnam ... (more)