Huyen Khong Cave, the chamber was used as a field hospital during the war by the Vietnamese.
This shaft of light is said to be from a hole from an American bomb. I lit always 3 sticks of incense in the caves at various Buddhist/Confuscian shrines, this makes for good shafts of light.

Sunrise at My Khe beach, the Vietnamese are out in force at like 5:30am till 8am or so whence they generally disappear to work I suppose. The AM is quite a scene with lots of soccer circles, playing keep away from each other(which I got to play a few times after they sort of taught me the rules), bathing in the small surf, volleyball and strange violent looking calisthenics. This one looks got enlarged.

the mountain in the back is called cat's tooth mountain, in the bowl of the valley, or maybe it was the humid humid heat, or the lack of people, but that mountain felt a bit ominous

Inside building B5.

The Lao civilian death count was astronomical. US B52 bombers could drop a hundred bombs at a time, and 580,000 bombing missions were conducted. The US dropped a planeload of bombs on Laos every eight minutes, day and night, for nine years from 1964 to 1973. That’s nearly two million tonnes of bombs – over half a tonne of bombs for every man, woman and child living in Laos.

Around a third of the population of Laos was killed, injured or made homeless by the air war – approximately a million people.

This is said to be a bomb crater, NVA or VC were apparently using this area and hence the bombing, the nicest temple was destroyed in one such bombing.

The bridge to/FROM the My Son Area ruins, then you take a 4x4 on the other side over VERY bumpy dirt road then walk 1/2 mile, in the major sweltering heat, I mean I had no shirt on and it was hard to walk on flat ground. With "cat's tooth" mountain looming above.

These little dioramas, complete with little chinese pagodas on the rocks and carp in the water are seen often, someday I'd like to learn the significance if any, this one is in the entrance to the hospital.

Some of the first Marines landing in Da Nang on China Beach

The only source of income for the most hill tribe people I'm told, though there were checkpoint we drove around that Tam said were to prevent larger logging operations.