I figured these out to be nothing more than 'truck-wash' stations. With the abundance of water flowing down the hillsides, they were all gravity flow diversion hoses. On this section of road, rather than food shacks dotting the highway coastline, we were seeing small shacks (I'm assuming with people inside) and outside a variety of hoses shooting water 50' + in the air. Along a lot of the coastal roads in CA, you would see random 'comida' shacks (small food restaurants) with a few chairs and a shelter of some sort to relax under, get some food, maybe a cerveza, and you could sit and enjoy the spectacular views. As we were scootin' through this section I started day-dreaming about my time riding in Central America on my KLR a few years back. I was trying to enjoy the twisty roads, but had to slow down due to the slick conditions.

We zig-zagged up, and up, and up, but unfortunately, as we gained in elevation, we lost our visibility and we re-gained our rain. It was south of Tuy Hoa and it was incredible. I guess I gapped on this conversation.)Īs we continued south down the #1 we came across another beautiful highway pass. (In retrospect, I remember a family friend from home telling me that you only pay $0.25 to $0.50 to park your bikes anywhere in Vietnam with an attendant watching over them. We got hosed, but whatever, it was a great morning at the beach. It came out that they paid 5000d for the parking spot for the day. Once at the beach for a couple of hours, we get to chatting with a couple from the UK and they too parked a scooter at the same place. I tell him we are only staying for a few hours and we agree on a price. He immediately throws a crazy number at me to park the bike (close to $5 bucks) and I immediately get it dropped by a half, thinking his high price was absurd. When we pulled up, there was an 'attendant' in a palapa covered area where people park their scoots and pedal bikes and the attendant watches over them. After breakfast, we loaded up my bike and traveled 2 up heading east to the beach - a nice 5 km meander from Hoi An.

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