Dream Hotel Nha Trang

... took us to a local cafe before we were off to Ho Chi Minh City.

Boarding the plane we ended up sitting next to a Russia Lawyer who spoke no English -- Losha and she talked the whole way to Saigon - in only Russian! She recommended a place to stay for 20 bucks a night that was clean with super friendly staff and ....that's it for now, we are in Saigon and it is amazing and crowded and pretty wonderful. Will update again soon before we leave!

... no mingling with the monks today. We will look outside. And again, it´s all green green green!! The best green a golf course should have! The weather looked a bit iffy and we hoped that Nha Trang would give us sunshine and those " most beautiful beaches in the world" The bus ride was smooth again and after 3 quick stops we arrived at Nha Trang in the dark. Kissed the Monk goodbye and walked to our guesthouse, which was funny enough named Son & Daughter...!!
Nha Trang, Vietnam paulyandblondy

In true Vietnamese style we had a beach party and this started in the morning.
The beach here was good - only locals and no sellers (so unlike Cambodia, there was no hustle on the beach)
Played football with the locals, swam in the sea and then good bbq.
The afternoon ............was party time ...

... no! He came back with a pink flowery umbrella! Much more practical!! Our food was good and I think they liked us as we were given free beer and free chocolate profiteroles and ice cream for pudding. It was a nice surprise when the bill came!

Diving - we were excited about heading out for more dives as it's been exactly a month since we finished our PADI course. It was quite different this time - they sorted all our kit out for us this time and we didn't ...

... the boat.

Caught the minibus back to Hanoi and arrived back at Hotel about 4pm. Now been given room 401 at the top.- nice large room with all the usual trimmings including fresh fruit bowl (rambutans) and watermelon slices in the fridge. Sorted ourselves and luggage out ready for moving off tomorrow by train to Da Nang/Hoi An..

Had a walk out around the old district for a meal followed by a walk through the night market on the way back to the hotel.

Nha Trang, Vietnam the_lightowlers

... their pants with laughter. Also, the 'white whale' title was me referring to one of the big attractions of the day .... me.... much bigger than your regular fish and a hell of a lot whiter. Forget the coral-less rocky beach there goes a huge white girl!!!! In the afternoon a local girl that now lives in California assured me that it is because they would all love to have such white skin. The reason they wear protective ...

Dies de platja i relax a Nha Trang. He decidit donar temps lliure a la camera de fotos, aixi que haureu de fer servir la imaginacio o 'google' per veure com es aquest indret. De fet, no val la pena que perdeu gaire el temps. A mi aquest lloc em recorda una mica a Platja d'Aro. La platja no esta malament (tampoc es espectacular), pero l'arquitectura amenaca a convertir-ho tot en un malson urbanistic d'aqui a poc temps ...

Today we repeated the same early escapades of the day before, but no business class today unfortunately. We tried turning left on the plane, but the pilot just wouldn't let us sit on his lap!

Bored in the airport, we gambled on some cards, with T finishing up a whopping 79,000.....Dong. Flight was also short.

Got to the hotel, and like day before headed straight out to a couple of the local sites. Nha Trang not ...

... For dinner we headed to the seafront Louisiana Brew-house, Paul continued his western food binge with German sausage and mustard mash and we tried the Louisiana's own beer - very good stuff. Day 2 in Nha Trang, we ate breakfast in the 'Same Same but Different Cafe' then found a supermarket and stocked up on insect repellent. We hired some bikes from the hotel and cycled north to the Po Nagar cham towers. They were impressive ...

... see some random rock formations by the sea, they were OK, just random rocks lying around. But it was well hot to we stayed there a while and took in the sea breeze. Next port of call was a 15 min cycle to Long Thahn Photo Gallery. Some of his photos were awesome, didn't take any photos so you will have to take my word for it. Then we went to the Long Son Pagoda which was pretty good, we saw a massive 14m marble Sleeping Buddha ...