The BIG attraction is the Golden Bridge opened 2018.
You’ve seen it on Instagram looking like this.
The reality is that the bridge is constantly packed with hordes, many of whom would happily throw you off in order to get the ideal photo location. To them I say …
I DID throw some competitors over the edge to get my own iconic pic.
Best advice is to go to one of the less crowded Golden Bridgeimitators in the Philippines, China, or elsewhere. 😀
In fact, I found more hands in the resort. Since I was alone, I’m assuming this area was not open to tourists. Oh well.
Criticism of Ba Na Hills, referred to by some as “Fairyland,” centers on it being an inauthentic, overcrowded, and overly commercialized theme park, with visitors finding the environment fake, the food uninspired, and the Golden Bridge experience ruined by throngs of people.
At one point I concluded, this is what TrumpLand would look like, if a theme park. 😀
Of course if Vegas kitsch amuses, you’ll have some laughs.
The super popular tour from Da Nang starts with a visit to a gift shop en route. What else?
Surprisingly, I quite enjoyed learning about pearls and precious woods.
You take a cable car up to the mountain peak. It’s the “longest non-stop single track cable car“, at 5,801 metres. In fact, this attraction has 6 cable cars now. They need more.
Massive, impossible construction is underway. Our tour guide is very disappointed. He predicts it will be a disaster when finished.
And even better psychological insight into Dr. JOSEPH O’LOUGHLIN diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
A beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. …
When an unknown young woman is found dead with multiple stab wounds – all of them self-inflicted – the police ask Joe to help them understand the crime. Are they dealing with a murder or a suicide?
Reluctantly, he agrees to help and the brutalised body he views at the mortuary turns out to be someone he knows: Catherine Mary McBride, a nurse and former colleague.
At the same time, Joe is grappling with a troubled young patient, Bobby Moran, whose violent dreams are becoming more real.
As Bobby’s behaviour grows increasingly erratic, Joe begins to ponder what he’s done in the past and what he might do next. Is there a link between his terrible dreams and Catherine McBride?
Hanoi has already started implementing a motorbike ban, beginning with petrol-powered motorbikes inside Ring Road 1 on July 1, 2026. These restrictions aim to combat the city’s severe air pollution, progressively phasing out fossil-fuel vehicles
I’ll believe that when I see it. 😀
I did see tourist areas blocked off for the evening in some other cities. Restaurants and bars could spill on to the street as they do in Europe.
He was worldly having worked on ships from 1911 to 1917. This included stops in the USA.
He lived in France for years. Then moved to Moscow in 1923. And to China in November 1924. In Canton, Hồ organized the Association of Vietnamese Youth.
It wasn’t until 1941 that Ho Chi Minh returned to Vietnam to lead the Việt Minh independence movement.
Cát Bà Island is the latest, greatest tourist jumping off point for boat tours of Hạ Long Bay (or Halong Bay) and Lan Ha Bay. Everyone has seen and heard about this famed UNESCOWorld Heritage Site.
Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Most of this trip is scenic relaxation. 😀
I spent 2 nights in Cát Bà town andreally enjoyed the tourist trap.
Massive resorts are under construction here. Beautiful tourist attractions, as well.
Here’s the view from my hostel in 2025. Gorgeous sunset blocked by giant crane.
I’m not sure I want to come back when this is all finished.
The collapse of civilization around the world has resulted from massive environmental changes and global disease, which were attributed to large-scale pollution.
… one large family founds an isolated community in an attempt to survive the still-developing global disasters.
As the death toll rises, mainly to disease and nuclear warfare, they discover that the human population left on earth is almost universally infertile.
From cloning experiments … the scientists in the small community theorize that the infertility might be reversed after multiple generations of cloning, and the family begins cloning themselves in an effort to survive.
The assumption is that after a few generations of cloning, the people will be able to revert to traditional biological reproduction. …
What could go wrong?
… only “naturally” produced human in the community, Mark, seeks his own solution to the problem, and by force he leads a group of fertile women and children to abandon the community and start over …
She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she’s come close to being killed. Now she’s back in England and she’s been persuaded to work on a third.
The new ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children’s author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago.
Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam’s killer inside his book, Susan knows she’s in trouble once again.
As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world – until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself.
It seems that someone in Eliot’s family doesn’t want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it.
Rick McCharles 