Our night bus took on elevated road from Hoi An to Nha Trang during the flooding caused by an incoming typhoon. Apparently a dam had also burst, causing more flooding than this coastal region is normally used to. The driver eventually gave up and parked the bus, turned off the AC and set up a hammock next to Steph's and proceeded to wake up the entire bus with his snores!
Hoi An - before we left on the night bus,
The next day traffic was allowed to resume and we could see what was going on in the light of day. Looking out the window, we may as well have been on a boat with lakes to left and right. It was like what you see on tv when the national guard are called in. The villages were flooded all the way up to road signs in some places. People paddled canoes down the alleys and into the doorways of homes where families have huddled on the 2nd floor balcony, or groups of villagers gathered on one persons roof. The chickens and pigs all struggled to find higher ground in their coops. Luckily for us the detours and road closures just meant we were stuck on the bus for 22 hours.
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