12 hour train ride happened to miraculously turn into 17 hours. No explanation other then 'train broken' was matched with the sloshing sounds of one of the somewhat broken squatter toilets made for a fun event. We also had the advantage of having numerous unidentified bugs crawling between the bunks combined with the great smell of cigarette smoke floating down from the next train car. Amazingly, the kids didn't complain and went straight from the train to lunch (no breakfast as we missed it) onto a tour of Hue. We never got to our hotel till 7:30 after a day of touring including being dumped on by some rain. We saw tombs of a king who had 500 wives ;), the imperial city, a massive pagoda and a boat tour of the parfum river. We finished with dinner before we finally made the exhausting whirlwind trip to our hotel at 7:30. Good thing we have a five hour drive tomorrow morning. We were getting worried that we were having too much good luck on the trip. It's good the students got a bit of real traveling the last day and a half . Trains in most of the world are never on time and you have to change plans accordingly...lesson learnt
Good times had by all! But amazingly no sickness yet and again, no complaining! The kids are doing above and beyond what we could ask from them.
For mr. Whitford