Danang is NOT a tourist city.\u00a0In fact the guidebooks have approximately a third of a page on it, and basically say \u201coh it\u2019s a city, nothing major here, you can skip it\u201d which is really too bad because it\u2019s such a cool city and has incredible beaches!! It\u2019s modern and growing like crazy with gorgeous new architecture, and fun hip social scene. It\u2019s definitely not on the tourist trail \u2013 which was great for us, we wanted to experience the real Vietnam.<\/p>\n
As such, though, it\u2019s not a particularly walkable city and we quickly learned we needed a moto (motorbike, scooter, moped). There are very few cars, but about a one to one ratio of motos to people. We rented our scooter from \u201cMama\u2019s Motos\u201d at Bread of Life Bakery and Caf\u00e9<\/a>. It was a Yamaha Deluxe LX edition, with faux leather trim that had \u201cLX\u201d embossed into the naugahyde in a very familiar pattern; it looked exactly like a Louis Vutton purse pattern, Our moto affectionately became known as \u201cLouie!\u201d Rick and I really liked calling it a scooter for some reason \u2013 and Rick really liked driving it \u2013 and singing about driving it while driving it!<\/p>\n We were so glad we had a moto, we would have missed out on so much without it. Here are our favorite Danang adventures on a moto:<\/p>\n This was just after our friends Christophe and Sakura invited us out to dinner with their local friend and tutor to experience real locals food. It was such an awesome dinner. Afterward we all rode around beautiful Danang!<\/p>\nScootin\u2019 around out on the town with friends<\/h3>\n