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Fair enough I will comply. Whatever you do don't use easy riders.
Anyway I've heard Kon Tum is beautiful and has a lot of Vietnamese culture-will go there early next year myself!

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Kon tum is nice, and its the only place in vietnam that the locals are happy to see you, people there were talking to me in restaurants and happily waving at me on the street. Still no idea why, I dont think I look much like Tom Cruise.

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Really? I've been welcomed all over the country. Been invited in for shelter and cups of tea from Tra Vinh to Lung Phin. I can't think of anywhere the locals weren't happy to see me...

(Don't think I have anything in common with Tom Cruise....)

William

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@#2 wrote : Kon tum is nice, and its the only place in vietnam that the locals are happy to see you,
I think the meaning is they are genuine and don't have dollar signs in their eyes.

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But there are genuinely nice people everywhere. The ones with the dollar signs hang out where the dollar are to be had. i.e. Along the very narrow tourist trail. Get off that and it is a different Vietnam.

Just yesterday, my son stopped at a roadside 'shop' to buy a bottle of water while he waited for me to catch up.

He then got invited in for tea, and by the time I arrived, we were invited to lunch.
Mrs went off into Na Chi to buy tofu and veg so she could make it all vegetarian for us.

Came back, cooked up a lunch as fine as any we have had.

Any suggestion of offering a contribution was
very graciously waved away. We didn't even
Pay for the original drink.

Not an uncommon experience in my trips to Vietnam.

The seaguls follow the trawler. Get away from the trawler and there are far fewer of them.

But, back to Kon Tum. It's nice enough and there are three vegetarian restaurants in the some street.

Had a nice sit by the river watching the waterbuffalo swim across after their day's work.

William

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Kon Tum ...wheely good idea!...
especially on 2 wheels. Fairly quiet and safe up there.

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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew a stop over between Kon Tom and Hoi An.
I think the distance is 300kms so I wanted to break it up a bit on my way to Hoi An.
Any suggestions.
Thanks

Patrick

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I've stopped off in Dak Glei which must be about half way.,... Here's a route map http://goo.gl/maps/va9Hq

Not much there, but there's a couple of basic guest-houses on the main road as you come into town, places to eat and a roadside market - they don't get many foreigners stopping... and I guarantee a complete change from the tourist trap of Hoi An.

William.

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the tourist trap of Hoi An.
bit of truth in that!