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 Day 5  of the Viet Nam Travelog and a trip to the DMZ taking in some of the major sites and of course the Vinh Moc Tunnels

 Owdue again Day 4 of the Viet Nam Travelog and off to Hue from Da Nang. A route that took us along the coast then over the Hai Van Pass once described by Jeremy Clarkson as   "A deserted ribbon of perfection—one of the best coast roads in the world." Quite an accolade considering he was riding a scooter at the time, not exactly his favourite mode of travel it seems. In Hue we stayed at my favourite hotel the Scarlett Boutique Hotel, took a boat along the Perfume river to the pagoda and the Imperial city and finished the day with food and drink ant the DMZ bar. I've added some route animation to this one using mappi-studio. Let me know what you think and oh. If you watch it on YouTube a thumbs up and like on there and maybe even consider following my channel would be nice.

 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.

 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...

 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...