It's our last night at the lovely Imperial Hotel and we enjoy breakfast on the deck on the 3rd floor with a gorgeous sunny day awaiting us.
We take a walk in the morning as the car won't pick us up for the transer to Pilgrimage Village, 3km out of Hue, until noon. We go to the bank for another million or so.... I can't believe women arriving to bank on their scooters, totally covered head to foot, with only eyes showing, to guard against pollution and sun. A dark skin here is a sign of lowclass!
We take a last walk along the riverside park with its interesting public art, mostly modern art concrete statues. We buy another silk sleeping bag for our future trips, probably good for the RV too. We are constantly harrassed by touts and cyclo drivers, but manage to wave tham all off.
It's 32 degrees by 10am, feels like 38, and I return to strip and and change.
We arrive at the classy Plgrimage Village resort, listed on the world's classiest spas. We'll see...
It's 99% booked but we don't like our room assignment, opposite the restaurant air/kitchen output and the two balconies advertised for every room look into 91) the pah past the restaurant and (b) a brick wall on the next villa. We have time...we wait...they show us another room. I ask what about the room upsairs? OK, we can have that one. I tell them it't not what I expected from the web site etc. etc. they say you have to be in a bungalow ($US 300-400 a night - don't think so...) to get a view like that. We settle on the upstairs room with a bed the size of our spare bedroom, two twins together made into a super size King..you'll have to make an appointment to see the person on the other end...hahaha
Even after our warm greeting, the lovely cold ginger tree, the cold towels infused with aromathereapy, we are sweating and can't wait to get into our room and the pool.
I retreat to the pool for the rest of the day until about 5pm. It's lovely, surounded by palapas and trees, plenty of shade, a lotus pond the other enda ad hot and cold running men filling your every wish...more or less...with VAT of 10% added and 5% service...
Ted wsalks into the village to find beer at a fraction of the resort price and fills our fridge with it. I enjoy the pool, the gardens, the birds, the crickets, my book. I'm not leaving here for 3 days...
At 6pm we wander over to the award winning resto. WE are hungry not having had lunch. WE are the only people there for about an hour so have super service.The food is good but not knock off our socks as we've had some of that already in most of the places we've stayed.The resort manager, Japanese, comes by to bow and scrape some more...are we happy...bon appetit!!
We try the $4.50 South African Sauvignon Blanc, it's drinkable, Ted finally tries the Vietnamese favourite, Bun, a huge bowl of noodle soup with extra bits, I have a green papaya salad and big honey-sauce shrimp and a passionfruit mouse dessert and it's our biggest bill this trip, US$60!
We retreat to our nice AC room and pass out again at 8:30 and sleep like logs to 6am.
We take a walk in the morning as the car won't pick us up for the transer to Pilgrimage Village, 3km out of Hue, until noon. We go to the bank for another million or so.... I can't believe women arriving to bank on their scooters, totally covered head to foot, with only eyes showing, to guard against pollution and sun. A dark skin here is a sign of lowclass!
We take a last walk along the riverside park with its interesting public art, mostly modern art concrete statues. We buy another silk sleeping bag for our future trips, probably good for the RV too. We are constantly harrassed by touts and cyclo drivers, but manage to wave tham all off.
It's 32 degrees by 10am, feels like 38, and I return to strip and and change.
We arrive at the classy Plgrimage Village resort, listed on the world's classiest spas. We'll see...
It's 99% booked but we don't like our room assignment, opposite the restaurant air/kitchen output and the two balconies advertised for every room look into 91) the pah past the restaurant and (b) a brick wall on the next villa. We have time...we wait...they show us another room. I ask what about the room upsairs? OK, we can have that one. I tell them it't not what I expected from the web site etc. etc. they say you have to be in a bungalow ($US 300-400 a night - don't think so...) to get a view like that. We settle on the upstairs room with a bed the size of our spare bedroom, two twins together made into a super size King..you'll have to make an appointment to see the person on the other end...hahaha
Even after our warm greeting, the lovely cold ginger tree, the cold towels infused with aromathereapy, we are sweating and can't wait to get into our room and the pool.
I retreat to the pool for the rest of the day until about 5pm. It's lovely, surounded by palapas and trees, plenty of shade, a lotus pond the other enda ad hot and cold running men filling your every wish...more or less...with VAT of 10% added and 5% service...
Ted wsalks into the village to find beer at a fraction of the resort price and fills our fridge with it. I enjoy the pool, the gardens, the birds, the crickets, my book. I'm not leaving here for 3 days...
At 6pm we wander over to the award winning resto. WE are hungry not having had lunch. WE are the only people there for about an hour so have super service.The food is good but not knock off our socks as we've had some of that already in most of the places we've stayed.The resort manager, Japanese, comes by to bow and scrape some more...are we happy...bon appetit!!
We try the $4.50 South African Sauvignon Blanc, it's drinkable, Ted finally tries the Vietnamese favourite, Bun, a huge bowl of noodle soup with extra bits, I have a green papaya salad and big honey-sauce shrimp and a passionfruit mouse dessert and it's our biggest bill this trip, US$60!
We retreat to our nice AC room and pass out again at 8:30 and sleep like logs to 6am.
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