52 Tran Phu Nha Trang

... driven the 1 hour down to Nha Trang. Nha Trang is a town that compares to an early day Costa del Colin resort, cheap drink, dirty beach and loose women (for a price.) It was fun for a few hours and and dinner before we hopped the night train to Saigon. In our 4 people cabin, we had 5 people but were thankful we were not next door with the rooster that we saw being man handled the following morning!<br><br><br>

sorry its been so long from our last update we have constantly been on the go, stoping at a place for one or two days plus we have had the typhoon from the phillipines and ive been ill so its been eventfull.<br><br>Nimh binh was awful we ended up staying in our hotel for 2 days untill we could get our next bus, everytime we went out everyone stared at us and we didnt feel safe here, <br>Hue was when all the floods started so it was really differcult to see things ...

... for playing in and taking a beating. Ready for another boring evening of homework and questions, after 2 jugs of Bia and some food of course.<br><br>The last day, do we pass or fail?<br><br>Today we went down to 18metres at South bay where the visibility was probably 7 meters. We saw a puffer fish, flat fish, and a Remora fish (the ones that follow and eat parasites from sharks) that followed us for 20minutes until we surfaced. The Remora would stay very close to your wet suit ...

... at the restaurant we prepared the ingredients under Lam's tutelidge before she demonstrated how to cook each dish herself. Then it was our turn to repeat the exercise on our very own stoves. Just like Jamie &amp; Gordan presentation was the key and we had to decorate before we could eat, it was quite terrifying peeling a tomato with a massive macchete! The trickiest bit of the menu was the flambe - I managed to burn mine too much leaving my sauce a bit dark much to ...

... first day (yes, there was more than one) I treated myself to a facial and massage. I was pampered with my own robe, slippers and cute panties to wear during the massage (you know I took those home). They prepared for me a refreshing cold, ginger tea, and a yummy dessert that was strawberry jello-custard like. After my treatment, they led me across a small Japanese bridge, spanning over a koi fish pond to the ...

... as a good place in the lonely planet so not a bad choice after all.<br><br>After checking in, went for something to eat before going back to hotel and changing for the beach. Spent the rest of the afternoon swimming , catching some sun and generally chilling..<br><br>Thurs 23rd<br><br>Lazy day, up after 9am, breakfast and then spent re4st of day down on beach, swimming, drinking, eating.<br><br>Later that evening headed out for a meal &#8211;had some crocodile which was ...

... treatment at Thap Ba Hot Springs, where you sit in a bath of mud for 20 minutes, dry out in the sun then wash off under a shower. Once you finish the mud treatment, you are lead to a hydrotherapy wall, where hot spring water jets out of a wall as you walk through, stopping for the water to massage your body. Once through the walls, you are lead to a bath full of hot spring water to sit in for as long as you like before going ...

... but was still nice to float around in the water having a drink.<br><br>Next stop was Hot Mot (or Hon Mieu? - something like that), where we just got to chill on the beach with a Tiger beer and got a chance to speak to some of the other tourists. We spoke to a Geordie couple (about 30 - that is aged 30, not 30 Geordies, that would be awful) and a Dutch couple, similar age to us, about things from their experiences in Thailand and ...