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Not really a beach person--but I do try to go for a swim at least once every trip.  So after playing a gig for some construction workers on their lunch break I hiked down to the beach for my official swim in Vietnam...

In 2000 I started to travel around the EurAzian continent. Not in one vacation ofcourse, there is work waiting for me at home, but in leg of 6 weeks. Every journey is about 3000 km long.

Before flying back to Hanoi, we stopped to hike up Marble Mountain, a series of grottoes with a nice lookout over China Beach and Danang in the distance.  During the American war, the caves were used as a Viet Cong hospital, oddly quite close to one of the Americans' largest air bases.  From the main cave, where a large buddha carving and small cement temple were built, my Dad, finace and I climbed further through a narrow gap and up smooth irregular marble boulders to reach th...

Here are some views in hanoi and Saigon. Will putt more pic later after i got myself a scanner.