How are you today? About me, it is not good. Today, when I received news from the owner of the in where I live that we will have to pack our things and car out of her house as she can have a room for her daughter. I feel like the sky is falling in the middle of the peace in my village. How many worries gradually pour down my head that I will have to go to Hue in this situation? Where will I be in Hue? Or how will I have to enter Hue? Moreover, Hue is currently experiencing a very serious covid outbreak, is it safe for me to enter Hue at this time? After some advice I received and everyone's concern, I still had to go to hue so I could move my stuff, give them back their room, and get home as safely and as quickly as possible. so my journey into hue was made the very next morning.
The trip begins!
I have to get up at 4 am o'clock, prepare some things and I start going to the bus station at 4:30 am because the sez bus leaves at 5 am. but not everything is perfect, the weather in my hometown this season is very cold and maybe that's why my car was delayed for 45 minutes, meaning I had to wait for the car in the cold weather for another 45 minutes. I really just want to go home with my warm blanket.
After 45 minutes of delay, my car also arrived and my trip started and my feeling of being in the air reappeared because of my motion sickness.
I wasn't prepared for this trip so I didn't have time to buy an antiemetic, I got a ginger root instead, and I sucked it on the whole way.
Because of the epidemic situation, the roads are now very few people, only a few small grocery stores have opened early. It takes almost 7 hours from my hometown to Hue, so I think I can sleep in the car for a long time. But because of my nature, I like to look around from the car, although the more I look, the more I feel motion sickness, that's okay, when I get motion sickness, I close my eyes and sleep until I settle down. I looked again.
On my way
The way we went there passed through Quang Binh province, which is famous for its Phong Nha caves, and I also got to see this cave through the car window. it would be great to visit there.
Phong Nha Cave is located in Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site, in Son Trach Commune, Bo Trach District, Quang Binh Province, about 45km northwest of Dong Hoi City.
Phong Nha Cave Legend
When I was a child, my grandfather often told me a story about Phong Nha cave: A long time ago, when Heaven and Earth still exchanged and connected through heaven's gate in the rugged mountains to the west Quang Binh. There was a Dharma Master who regularly came down to the earth to visit the scenery and people. She fell in love with land with many large caves, deep caves, many plants, strange birds and animals, and simple, carefree, poor, but kind people. One day, she reported to God that he could come down to the earth for a while to preach heaven's teachings, and to expand the morale of the good people on earth. The Jade Emperor approved and assigned a time for him to return to Heaven to take care of his duties. She chose the familiar land that he used to love as a place to preach. Not only did the people in the area love and respect her, but even plants and animals were touched by his virtue and with his teachings that were easy to understand and do. A residential area, water, grass as if gathered in love, harmony, in the arms of his virtue.
The Jade Emperor looked down at the earth and was touched by the admiration of the officials for the law and religion of heaven, so he allowed the mandarins to be immortal, turned them into stone statues to living forever.
Extremely grateful to Tien Su and impressed by the reverence of the mandarins, the villagers together set up a temple in front of the cave and named it TIEN SU TU COC to commemorate and pray for blessings every day. The cave of Tien Su often teaches and teaches the mandarins and the villagers named it PHONG NHA, with the legend that Phong Nha is not only the place the king chooses to issue a decree to the mandarins but also the place where the mandarins are bestowed immortality by the Jade Emperor.
The way from my hometown to Hue is still a lot of beautiful scenery, but it's a pity that I have to close my eyes and sleep more than half the time I sit in the car.
Unlucky trip
I arrived in Hue at noon and the clock struck 12:15, at that time my stomach was also hungry, but I must say that this trip was too hasty and unlucky at all. Because it was not safe to go to Hue, I had to take my motorbike with me to Hue, but the thing is, when my motorbike got off, it didn't explode anymore and so I had to ask my friend for help. And we had the memorable experience of pulling the car with a rope for 20 minutes to get back to the city. It was truly a memorable experience because on the way back to the city we had an accident but "a blessing In disguise" that we didn't have to go to the hospital but my heart was about to explode because be afraid.
I had an unpleasant trip when I had to rush to Hue and in such circumstances, but when I came here I was filled with memories of being back in my second hometown after 5 months away, everything was still light, gentle just like the old days. And my goal now is to have a filling and safe lunch.
The covid epidemic is raging in many places and is very dangerous because of its rapid spread and antibodies but to win it we have to live with it and be stronger than it to outlast it. Wish you always be safe.
Many thanks