Visa issues and Ba na hills-by Amelie

Most of traveling is easy, but there can be some difficult times too. Here is one of them:

To enter Vietnam you need a visa. When we got our visas, our entry place was written on them. After we got our visas, we decided to fly into a different city in Vietnam. We thought it was okay to have a different port of entry, because it was in the same country, but the airline proved us wrong. When we got to the airport, the airline said we had to have the the exact port of entry written on it. We had to rebook our flight so we had enough time to buy another visa and then we could go to Vietnam. We got our pictures taken, but by accident we put in my birthdate wrong, so we had to pay for another visa. We thought it was okay after that, but when we got to the airport the airline said that on my moms visa there was one wrong number. We had to buy another visa! That’s twelve visas we had to buy in two days! We finally got on the airplane and went to Ho Chi Min. There was a layover in Ho Chi Min city, and the airlines said that they had not rebooked our second half of the flight. They had to rebook it… AGAIN! We are no longer flying with that airline! I think all that was worth it because Vietnam has been amazing so far!

“Ba na hills” is a popular hill in De Nang. From Hoi an it takes about one our to drive there. When we got there we took the longest gondola in the world and actually the longest one, that was about 45 minutes and 5 km long up to the top of the mountain. At the top of the mountain we walked around, saw the big Buddha and went to an old French wine cellar. We also went to the Golden Bridge which was so cool because there are hands made of stone holing up a Golden Bridge. It was hard to take pictures tough because there are so many people. After that we took another gondola down to fantasy world (kind of like a amusement park). We waited in a very, very, long line so we could go on this super fun roller coaster where you are in charge of the brakes (I went at full speed). We also went on a fun spinning ride and went to a Jurassic place were you see dinosaurs. We went for lunch at a restaurant in the French colony and got western food (i will not put in exclamation point after that because I prefer Asian food). We also took some funny pictures while my mom and dad went to a beer plaza. After it was time to go back to Hoi an.

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