Riding along on my pushbike, honey.

Day 16: Marble Mountain + Hoi An on a bicycle.

Today we woke up super early to go to Marble mountain. Our hotel had an awesome buffet breakfast so we ate lots of that first then headed out in our car. The driver that took us there flipped out this sweet dvd player in the car, but then proceeded to play euro trash rave music accompanied by unsynced video clips of it. Blerggh. Luckily it was only about a half hour ride and we got out and were pointed in the direction of stairs. So many stairs. We soon realised this was worse than the temples in Siem Reap! There was an elevator to halfway but we thought we may as well make the whole climb. After a gazillion stairs there was a huge pagoda on the mountain, numerous temples and some really cool caves. The first one you had to climb through behind a Buddha shrine to get to it but it was a pretty big cave with light shining through. Then we made the trek to a few view points. Up a gazillion more steps. And not concrete steps, like huge hunks of marble steps that are all different sizes and steep and literally a million of them. But we made it to the very top and that was pretty cool.

After climbing back down we found another cave that was absolutley breath taking. You go through a narrow part and inside there is a giant Buddha statue and youre in this huge carved marble rooom inside the mountain… It looked like something out of indiana jones…! It was set up like a temple though so people were praying and it was dark so I didnt really get a good photo.

The climb down wasnt as bad but i slipped on a marble stair but didnt hurt anything. There was no euro music on the way back - thank god. So we packed our things, had a quick second breakfast before it finished at 10am, then rented a bike, put Croute on the back (she cant ride a bike) and headed off to pick up our tailored goods. Yaaay.

The shoes and clothes are all sooo awesome. So happy. I also took Crouton down a quiet street and taught her to ride a bike! She still can’t really turn though.

Then we came back to the hotel, bought some schnacks and checked out and are currently on a bus to Hue!