Hoi An The following morning we were picked up and drove towards Hoi An - our final stop in Vietnam. We had booked a car from Hue to Hoi An, and dropped into Elephant Spring, then Lap An lagoon, Lang Co Bay. We drove through the Hai Van pass, and stopped at a military fort, a key viewpoint in the Vietnam War, on a mountain-top with views either side. Then we visited Marble Mountain, a cluster of 5 hills just south of Da Nang made of Limestone and Marble temples and pagodas on top and within the mountain. We went up by escalator on the mountain side and visited the temples, pagodas and caves. Climbing up into the biggest circular cave meant clambering through a few narrow and steep passages till eventually we came out into
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