Lady Buddah and the Han Market

You could see Lady Buddah from the grounds of our Hotel.

Lady Buddah is 72 metres high and 17 metres around and she is thought by the locals to. protect sailors. She is taller than the Empire State Building
and 17 metres in diameter. You can actually climb to the stop of lady Buddah’s Head; it is 17 floors high (we didn’t climb it). The scenery of Da Nang is beautiful,
and so is the Lin Ung Pagoda. Admission is free and there is a souvenir shop as well

We thought it was going to rain as the clouds moved in, but luckily there was only a couple of drops.
. I’ve included a couple of web links, the first one has more pictures of the grounds. https://wanderlustmike.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/lady-buddha-da-nang/ and http://ladybuddha.org/.

Da Nang like other Cities and towns in Asia has numerous markets. In Da Nang the most well-known is the Han Market where everything can be bought. There is the wet market, a section for clothing, dried goods, Chinese medicines, clothing, flowers, food stalls, insense; You name it, they got it.

I have to say one of the things about travelling for me is learning about the culture, the people their foods but there are some things, environmentally related that I do not like and one of the things that I witnessed in the Han market was someone buying a large sized I mean maybe XML size of ===seahorses===. The horses didn’t have their shells on so maybe they were babies. I was upset and did do a Google search and I don’t think it’s illegal to sell them, but it is to fish them. I also know what I saw was part of the culture and they are mainly sold for Chinese traditional medical purposes, but I doubt there is any medical evidence that supports the use of seahorses for medical needs.