Tuesday 23rd June 2009 Hue Skipped breakfast and got on the bus hopping they’d stop somewhere decent but we were sorely disappointed. The bus pulled in literally after being on the road about 20 minutes to a place called marble hill. We got off the bus and the air was almost at baking temperature again already and it wasn’t yet 9am. Surrounding us were over 100 shops and stalls selling everything you could ever dream of made out of marble and many that you would never even think anyone in their right mind would ever want or need. There were life size marble rhinos, big altars, a million Buddha statues, dolphins, monkeys, dragons, birds. It was a marble zoo but without any place to find anything to eat, not even a marble cake! We wandered around
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