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Al's Viet Nam Travelog Day 3 Ba Na Hills and the Golden Bridge

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 The fireworks are over and after the explosive experience and the wine, a good sleep in preparation for a really great day was in order. Day 3 was a trip we had booked to Ba Na Hills and the Golden Bridge. You may have seen the Golden bridge on many promo adverts for Vietnam, it's the one with the hands. Pin has been wanting to go there for a while but her planned trips got the cop unfortunately. This time she got her wish. To be honest I hadn't researched this really so I wasn't particularly impressed that a trip to a bridge with concrete hands would be much of a trip. How wrong can you be! What a fantastic afternoon, what a great venue!!! Do I plan going back? Yup, sure do.

Al's Viet Nam Travelog Day 2 c Diff Final China Minus AXEL F

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 At last, after a lot of censor induced cutting room floor contribution, the performance of the 2nd finalist, China, at the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival Unfortunately one of the pieces of music used in the show has a global ban on it so YouTube wouldn't let me show the whole video. The only way round this was to edit out the offending piece, a bit of a shame but there it is.  For info, DIFF is an annual competition held each weekend around the May, June, July period. I liked this performance the best because I felt the synchronisation of pyrotechnics and music was great, the judges did not agree but what do they know😁  It is a very popular event and this year I was only able to get a "room with a partial view" from a hotel right opposite the main stage and grandstand (I was too late to get tickets from the hotels rooftop viewing area or the actual grandstands themselves). This presented me with some problems; The room I had did not give an unobstructed view o...

Al's Viet Nam Travelog Day 2 c Diff Final China highlight

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 This is the performance of the 2nd finalist, China, at the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival. DIFF is an annual competition held each weekend around the May, June, July period. I liked this performance the best because I felt the synchronisation of pyrotechnics and music was great, the judges did not agree but what do they know😁  It is a very popular event and this year I was only able to get a "room with a partial view" from a hotel right opposite the main stage and grandstand (I was too late to get tickets from the hotels rooftop viewing area or the actual grandstands themselves). This presented me with some problems; The room I had did not give an unobstructed view of the total display. Rain drop residue was on the window I had to shoot from. Reflections had to be avoided. Conversations in the room (I was there with my wife) had to be removed. Getting rid of my phone bleeps however could not be done, lesson learned. Fortunately my #dji Pocket 4P performed well and...

Al's Viet Nam Travelog Day 2 b DIFF Final Portugal

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 The Da Nang International Fireworks Festival, DIFF is an annual competition held each weekend around the May, June, July period. Schedule and event details can be found at the official website https://diff.vn/en/ It is a very popular event and this year I was only able to get a "room with a partial view" from a hotel right opposite the main stage and grandstand (I was too late to get tickets from the hotels rooftop viewing area or the actual grandstands themselves). This presented me with some problems; The room I had did not give an unobstructed view of the total display. Rain drop residue was on the window I had to shoot from. Reflections had to be avoided. Conversations in the room (I was there with my wife) had to be removed. Fortunately my #dji Pocket 4P performed well and my editing suite, #Filmora 15 cleaned the video and sound pretty well. This is a 20 minute full Version The highlight 1 minute version is on the channel as well, same title but with "highlight...

Al's Viet Nam Travelog Day 2 b DIFF Final Portugal highlight

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 The Da Nang International Fireworks Festival, DIFF is an annual competition held each weekend around the May, June, July period. Schedule and event details can be found at the official website https://diff.vn/en/ It is a very popular event and this year I was only able to get a "room with a partial view" from a hotel right opposite the main stage and grandstand (I was too late to get tickets from the hotels rooftop viewing area or the actual grandstands themselves). This presented me with some problems; The room I had did not give an unobstructed view of the total display. Rain drop residue was on the window I had to shoot from. Reflections had to be avoided. Conversations in the room (I was there with my wife) had to be removed. Fortunately my #dji Pocket 4P performed well and my editing suite, #Filmora 15 cleaned the video and sound pretty well. This is a 1 minute highlight generated by Filmora 15 The full 20 minute version is on the channel as well, same title but without...

Als Viet Nam Travelog Day 2 a Lady Buddha and Marble Mountain

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 Owdue all Day 2 of the Viet Nam travelog and in the morning and to fit in with our schedule based around the final of the Da Nang International Firework Festival (DIFF) (which by the way meant there were many tourists and visitors everywhere we went) we took a tour to the Lady Buddha and Marble Mountain. The tour was booked via Get Your Guide. Maybe too much of me talking and not enough action but it is what it is. After the tour, dinner in a seafood restaurant before back to the hotel for the fireworks.