You'd never think it'd be possible to get sick of beaches since I would have killed to spend all my time on a beach last year, but really, if you spend too much time anywhere, you get a bit burnt out--beaches, temples, mountains, all the good stuff. So I guess thats why you keep traveling, because the change is what is exciting (and at times, stressful). So it sounds quite spoiled to say "oh, not another beach town", but my travel companions and I are wishing for a change of scenery. It also doesn't feel like a more authentic Vietnam, it feels like a beach town which could be in any country. It's like visiting different malls in different countries. Back when I was shattered in Hanoi, it was a quite a stressful experience, but that's when I felt most in contact with the culture since people were going about their daily lives there, it wasn't a town made just for tourists. In any case, I'm hoping to find something besides beaches and temples in my asia travels, since it all seems to blend together after a while.
Right now my group and I seem a bit busted up--one guy has a busted knee, another had a sprained foot, another with a motorcycle exhaust burn, and I have heat rash and a completely scraped up thigh and leg from an incident with coral barnacles. The anti-malaria medication makes me photosensitive and the sun is incredibly strong here so I guess it finally caught up with me despite my best attempts at putting on sun screen and staying out of the sun. So hopefully we'll recover soon, travel battle wounds!
Here are more pics:
Central-Southern
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2081794&l=63c96&id=1700835
Central Vietnam
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2081714&l=3e821&id=1700835
Ha Long Bay
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2080883&l=5f401&id=1700835
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