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Vietnam Hoi An

Lovely town- to relax in for the last part of the holiday in Vietnam!
On the first evening I ended up playing a Vietnamese version of Bingo!
On the second day went on a day trip to My Son and then on the way back we stopped at an island opposite Hoi An and visited the handicrafts workshops.
Later in the afternoon I borrowed a bike from the hotel and headed off towards the nearby beach,whihc was packed as it was the holiday weekend. The sea was a little rough and the sky overcast,grey and slightly moody;for some reason I prefer the beach like this it seems there's more atmosphere.
In the evening the town's really picturesque with all the brightly lit lanterns in the shops.

Vietnam:Dalat

Took a motorbike "City Tour" with the Easy Riders.;it's a great way to see the city and the surrounding countryside.
On the tour we visited the Chicken Village,then the Dalatana Waterfall,Paradise Lake and the nearby Mediatation temple,the Crazy House which reminded me of the architecture styles of Gaudi and Hundertwasser,the old French train station and a Chinese Temple.

Vietnam:Ho Chi Minh

Pak Chong,Petchaburi and Hui Hin

The Three Pagodas Pass

On Tuesday on a day trip in Kanchanburi I visited The Three Pagodas Pass,the Mon Bridge and also did a short boat trip to a sunken temple just up the river from the bridge.The next day while waiting by the River Kwai Bridge for the over due train to Bangkok the heavens opened up and rained really heavily for an hour;the area around me quickly became flooded.

Headless body:Italian tourist

The man who recently lost his head has been discovered to be an Italian tourist;whose life,and apparently his love life as well,wasn't running too smoothly so his way out was a rather dramatic suicide at the Rama Bridge in Bangkok.
Clues from the Italian white bag attached to the head hanging from the bridge and the Thai owner of a guest house,where he had been recently been staying all pinpointed to the identity of the Italian Tocassin.