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My next stop after Huè was Phong Nha, home to Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park. I spent an incredibly sunny day on a scooter exploring the park and it's caves, as well as admiring some of the most beautiful views I've seen. I already had little faith in my scooter as it moved by itself when "stationary" so I wasn't too surprised when it broke down in the middle of no where! With no phone and no one around, I just had to persevere with starting the engine and after being joined by 2 more English speakers, it perked up and finally started! It was only a matter of time before it would break down for the second time at a bar, but I wasn't so concerned about that funnily enough! After getting very little sleep on my first night, I treated myself to a private room for the second but just my luck, ended up passing out on the bathroom floor all alone due to what I suspect was food poisoning....at this point though, I was more
The one with the broken scooter
April 19, 2018
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Phong Nha, Vietnam
My next stop after Huè was Phong Nha, home to Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park. I spent an incredibly sunny day on a scooter exploring the park and it's caves, as well as admiring some of the most beautiful views I've seen. I already had little faith in my scooter as it moved by itself when "stationary" so I wasn't too surprised when it broke down in the middle of no where! With no phone and no one around, I just had to persevere with starting the engine and after being joined by 2 more English speakers, it perked up and finally started! It was only a matter of time before it would break down for the second time at a bar, but I wasn't so concerned about that funnily enough! After getting very little sleep on my first night, I treated myself to a private room for the second but just my luck, ended up passing out on the bathroom floor all alone due to what I suspect was food poisoning....at this point though, I was more
concerned by the state of the bathroom floor that I'd just collapsed onto rather than what may have caused it. I spent the rest of my time in Phong Nha sleeping in bed, sleeping by the pool and generally feeling sorry for myself.
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The one where I'm unprepared
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The one where I people watch
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The one with the sweaty boys
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The one with the pickled slugs
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The one where I smell
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The one with pacing bears and bamboo grubs
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The one where I might have rabies
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The one with more Pad Thai
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The one with 762 curves
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The one with boobs
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The one with the wall of China
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The one where I'm full
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The one with the "cruise"
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The one with waterfalls
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The one with one too many waterfalls...
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The one where the bird dies
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The one with the Lao Lao
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The one where I discover bangers and mash
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The one with moody views
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The one with a girl, a bike and a big city
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The one where I'm offered a foetus kebab
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The one where I'm really lazy
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The one with dolphins in it
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The one with the virgin chicken
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The one where I eat a lot of pepper
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The one with the minty Carbonara
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The one where there's a bit o splash back
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The one where I'm at one with nature
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The one with the red chair restaurants
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The one with the disappointed tourists
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The one where it's not actually cake
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The one where I wait
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The one where I cross the border
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The one where there are tiny chairs at tiny tables
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The one where I fight with the toilet
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The one where there was "no roast duck" left
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The one with the fashionable poncho's
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The one with the broken scooter
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The one where I eat wild mushrooms
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The one where my kayak is full of coral
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The one with the giggling policemen
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The one where I am reunited with Pad Thai
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The one where everything is extortionate
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The one where I'm a bottomless pit
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The one where I apparently stink
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The one where he melted
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The one where Oasis perform live
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The one where my splinter is sterile
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The one where it comes to an end
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