Chitty chitty bang bang!
Finally in Hue! The local time is 10 am, and we're now having breakfast at some café we found on the way to the hostel where we're planning on staying. The bus ride here was something, alright. We have had better bus rides in our live, that's for sure. This ride will definately enter the top three list of "Bumbiest rides" ever.
We left Hanoi yesterday at 6 pm in our sleeper bus, which is basically a bus with three rows of bunkbeds (more like chairs in a 45 degree angel). At first we had lots of room in the back of the bus, but we stopped to pick up more travellers on the way from Hanoi, and eventually the bus was full. A bit crowded, no space to move and uncomfortable pillows. But the worst part was not the bus itself. The problem with a sleeper bus in Vietnam is that the roads here really are crap. Imagine trying to sleep on a hard pillow, barely lying down, on a bus driving on a highway destroyed by an earthquake (kind of). On top of this apparently all drivers in Vietnam have death wishes. They use the horn whenever they can and tries to pass other cars all the time, no matter if there's a curve coming up or not.
The driver also thought it would be a good idea to put on some music. Music in Vietnam is highly interesting. It's like the music of the 90's from the western countries have just reached Vietnam! Celine Dion's "My heart will go on" is a hit here, as well as Bryan Adams "All for love" and Lionel Richie's "Say you, say me". To name a few. If these power ballads from the past is not flowing through the speakers, it's definately the classic Vietnamese Euro-dance-disco-tecnho. It's like Aqua, but waaay more simple, annoying and sugar coated. And that's exactly what the bus driver played the first hour of our trip. After that, he played a chinese movie, dubbed with a vietnamese voice. One vietnamese girl saying all the lines of the movie. Incredibly stupid, and annoying. :P
The view from the back of the sleeper bus.
We were this happy. Really!
Anyway, the title of this blog post is refering to the movie Ace Ventura - When nature calls, our favourite clip from this movie. This bus ride pretty much felt the same as Ace's ride through the jungle. CHIIIITYYYYY!
Today we tink we will go and see the old citadel here i the city. Hue was actually the old capital of Vietnam from 1802 to 1945. It got tons of temples and tombs around town and the old citadel is one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. The city is very close to the place where the old border between North and South Vietnam were and though the city was bombed and damaged during the war, it is still the cultural capital of Vietnam. Hue is small city though, "only" around 350 000 people, so we're kinda hoping that it should be somewhat more quite and calm here compared to Hanoi. Now, we have to go and find our hotel. Later!
/M&C
We left Hanoi yesterday at 6 pm in our sleeper bus, which is basically a bus with three rows of bunkbeds (more like chairs in a 45 degree angel). At first we had lots of room in the back of the bus, but we stopped to pick up more travellers on the way from Hanoi, and eventually the bus was full. A bit crowded, no space to move and uncomfortable pillows. But the worst part was not the bus itself. The problem with a sleeper bus in Vietnam is that the roads here really are crap. Imagine trying to sleep on a hard pillow, barely lying down, on a bus driving on a highway destroyed by an earthquake (kind of). On top of this apparently all drivers in Vietnam have death wishes. They use the horn whenever they can and tries to pass other cars all the time, no matter if there's a curve coming up or not.
The driver also thought it would be a good idea to put on some music. Music in Vietnam is highly interesting. It's like the music of the 90's from the western countries have just reached Vietnam! Celine Dion's "My heart will go on" is a hit here, as well as Bryan Adams "All for love" and Lionel Richie's "Say you, say me". To name a few. If these power ballads from the past is not flowing through the speakers, it's definately the classic Vietnamese Euro-dance-disco-tecnho. It's like Aqua, but waaay more simple, annoying and sugar coated. And that's exactly what the bus driver played the first hour of our trip. After that, he played a chinese movie, dubbed with a vietnamese voice. One vietnamese girl saying all the lines of the movie. Incredibly stupid, and annoying. :P
The view from the back of the sleeper bus.
We were this happy. Really!
Anyway, the title of this blog post is refering to the movie Ace Ventura - When nature calls, our favourite clip from this movie. This bus ride pretty much felt the same as Ace's ride through the jungle. CHIIIITYYYYY!
Today we tink we will go and see the old citadel here i the city. Hue was actually the old capital of Vietnam from 1802 to 1945. It got tons of temples and tombs around town and the old citadel is one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. The city is very close to the place where the old border between North and South Vietnam were and though the city was bombed and damaged during the war, it is still the cultural capital of Vietnam. Hue is small city though, "only" around 350 000 people, so we're kinda hoping that it should be somewhat more quite and calm here compared to Hanoi. Now, we have to go and find our hotel. Later!
/M&C
Kommentarer
Postat av: Liz
Så ni fick inte sova så mycket antar jag? :p kul med lite bilder igen. Marcus du har fått en fin bränna där men var Christopher på samma strand? :p hoppas inte det rengar hela veckan så ni kan jobba på det lite mer :) vad jobbigt med musiken där. Är det sånt musik på uteställen också?? Ser fram emot nästa inlägget ikväll ;) Kram
Postat av: Marie
Hemska bussresor! Då har ni i alla fall något att jämföra med när ni kommer hem.
80-tals musiken tycker jag låter helt OK, men sen kan man ju slippa resten Haha.Jag tycker som Liz, kul att se lite bilder. Kram
Postat av: Christina
Håller med Marie, den musiken är väl bra:)Men fy för att åka med en sån chaufför! Vad är det för folk som åker med dessa bussar? Mest turister eller? Kram, kram
Postat av: Mattias
Haha, älskar titeln. CHITTY!!!
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