19th March
Hard to believe, but we finally did it.   17th ,Got up at crack of dawn, so had been going 7 hours before the plane even took off.   Had a pleasant interlude with Vicky and Stewart at the airport and then settled into an 11 hour flight to Hong Kong, plus a six hour time change.  Several meal and movies later, we landed, and with a 25 minute walk from plane to check in, got the strength back in our legs a bit.   The flight to Da Nang was only two hours with one hour time change, the other way, so that in Vietnam, we are 5 hours ahead of South Africa and Europe.

The taxi was waiting as scheduled, and we finally reached our homestay at 10a.m. and fell into bed for six hours.  A short walk, an evening meal and then crashed again for 14 hours.