When the crews came by and tore down this eyesore of a building on the beach and there was just an open space there for a time, I was hopeful that perhaps there was sort of reclamation project going on and the city was planning on beautifying the beach are with the addition of some natural space instead of the usual tourist ripoff places that are on the beachfront of nearly everywhere in the world.

There is a fine line between having enough buildings to accommodate the tourists near or on the beach, and then overcrowding with those same buildings. Da Nang has allowed what I consider to be a crazy amount of construction at or near the beach and we have already passed the point of having "enough."

I have been teaching English online for the past 5 years using a company based out of China. They will hire people anywhere in the world if you are a native English speaker and even a few people here and there that are not native. Your ability to make money depends almost entirely on how well you engage your audience and just like in anything else, the people who are just starting out find it difficult to gain clients and the people that have been doing it a while don't have much trouble at all because you get a star rating and referrals.

Neither one of these are spray, but the are also custom and are not decals. Recently I was in a Mexican restaurant and at first I was amazed at how good their custom art was until I got up close to take a texture shot and realized that all of them were giant stickers that the owners had stuck to the walls. LAME!

I start to feel like I am always complaining but that isn't because this particular thing affects my life, it doesn't, at all. I am just disappointed because there was a real opportunity here to improve the area and make it more beautiful for all, including the massive amount of tourists that are in this part of the city.

Vietnam has always seemed to be content to simply sit out the tourism game although you would never know that by coming to visit Da Nang. This place is basically overrun with tourists year round outside of the cold season and this is part of the reason why I love the cold season so much.