Today we drove about 30miles to My Son, the ancient temple site of the Chams which was occupied from the 4th the 13th century and remained virtually intact until 1969. At that time the Viet Cong used it for a camp and the Americans bombed about 75% of it. We were saying how awful and our guide said, " It was a war and its in the past, nothing can be done about it!" That is the attitude here about the "American War". All of the people we have met were born after the war was over, or after independence as they say.

The countryside here is absolutely beautiful, hilly and lush and green with lovely green rice fields. The population here is so much less than in the Delta and around Saigon, so there is much less noise and chaos and the roads are not very crowded. We are also enjoying the cool weather, all the Vietnamese are wearing their winter coats and freezing to death as it is about 60 degrees today.

We had a great lunch which included Mango Beef Salad, soooooo good. We went shopping this afternoon and I got a silk jacket made. Two little women that hardly reached my shoulder were doing the measurements, one was measuring calling out to the other with a lot of chatter in between. They were probably saying, "Can you believe this, the biggest one today!"

We then just wandered around in the town, and ended up in the local market. They really give you the hard sell, except in the vegetable selling part.

Tomorrow we have a free rest day, will spend it at the pool if it warms up or else go shopping.