Danang

(See the size of our bags! black/blue is Jeffs, teal/orange is mine, Genna's is smaller, and Maya has a nice child size 35L internal frame)

Our first train experience of the trip was the night train from Nha Trang to Danang.  It was running late and the wait was uncomfortably hot.  We had 3 night trains total on the whole trip and progressively went up in class.  We started here with the "Hard Berth" sleeper which is a cabin for 6.  Two triple bunk beds with thin mats, a pillow, and a blanket.  It wasn't terrible sleeping but expectedly bare-bones.

We ate SO MUCH NOODLE SOUP for 8 weeks! Most of it was good.  Occasionally there would be weird things to pick around (crab balls or blood lumps), but you can't go too wrong with noodles and broth.  

We hoped to see more of Marble Mountain but entered at a minor ticketed entrance later to discover that we needed a different ticket to see the major part of the caves, pagodas, and mountain top. It was such a frustrating situation, we just left and skipped the rest.

We really liked Danang, even though we only spent 24 hours here.  The city is cleaner and traffic is lighter compared with Saigon.  There are several bridges that are lovely day and night.  

ADDICT
Here we learned that the iced coffee with sweetened condensed milk is called "Saigon" style.  It often comes with another glass of cold jasmine tea.  This cafe also served a DELICIOUS and cheap glass of fresh yogurt topped with passion fruit.