17 Mar 2019
We took the biking/fishing day trip with Hung and had a marvelous time. Hung picked us up at our hotel with excellent-quality bikes. We started riding and were soon out of the city on to beautiful paths through rice paddies and little villages. We went to the Japanese Bridge and the local market, and had a drink and talked with Hung. He is knowledgeable and has a sense of humor—not really a tour guide but more of a friend.
We rode to a dock and got on a small wooden boat and went out into a vast watery wilderness of fishing communities and tiny villages. We even got to cast a net to see how it is done—no luck! The best part of the day was an incredible seafood lunch way out on the water. Only local people were there and we met some charming kids who wanted to chat. The food was the best we had in Hue—fresh and simply prepared and four or five different kinds of seafood and fish.