Perfume Grass Inn Nha Trang

Central Vietnam Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/threevagabo nds2/NhaTrangHoiAnHueCentralVietnam# Arriving in Nha Trang, after a 12 hour overnight sleeper bus, we settled into a guest house called Perfume Grass Inn 2 right across from the beach! We grabbed a quick bite to eat at Truc Linh 2 Restaurant and enjoyed 2 for 1's at Crazy Kim's Bar. We called it an early night because we didn't get much sleep on the sleeper, as the beds are made for small Vietnamese women and we didnt' quite fi...

We got another bone shaker of a bus down the winding mountain roads back to Mui Ne. When we arrived, the wind was blowing hard so Dean headed straight to the kiteboarding school, "Jibes", to book some lessons. The wind during the following six days was very erratic and resulted in a total of only five and half hours of tuition. Still, it was enough for Dean to completely master kiteboarding and to even show the instructors a few tricks. These 'tricks' involved face planting, drinking sea wate...

Première ville où l'attrait principale est faire de la plage. Nous avions donc décider d'aller se faire dorer la peau au soleil a notre première journée... Bon, ça n'a pas été exactement comme prévu car au lieu du soleil nous avons eu droit a des nuages (et un peu de pluie). Mais bon, c'est pas ça qui allait nous arrêter. La journée suivante nous avons réservé une journée de croisière sur le bateau de Mama Linh. C'est une expédition qui est dirigée spécialement vers la clientèle fringante et ...

Early bird girl for once and was up and waiting for the bus at 7am with Fred. Mrs Yung rushed over to gossip with me before I left, will miss this lady as she is amazing. She was bursting to confide that Isi (the old Belgian gentleman) has a 22 year old HCMC girlfriend and he is almost 70! Whoops, I recalled being quite vocal about this last night. Had I known... actually I still would have probably said the same things! Onto the bus, where I was lulled into a false sense of security that I h...

Nha Trang - The hunt for shorts...... Seeing as we had been cheated out of some sun, sea and sand in rainy Sri Lanka (feels like years ago!) we head over to Nha Trang on the coast of Vietnam for some beach action. Eight hours on a train and nearly 60 games of sh*thead later (no joke), we arrive in Nha Trang and find a cheap guesthouse close to the beach. On our 2nd attempt we found a cute little place for $11 including free internet and breakfast and only 100 metres from the beach. Cheap as c...

In search of much needed beach relaxation we embarked on our longest bus journey to date. A total of thirteen hours. Such a long journey gave us ample opportunity to observe local driving practices along Highway 1 which runs the length of the country. Basically the rules of the game are as follows: there is one lane on each side for the lorries and buses with enough space in the middle (just) to allow a vehicle to overtake. This opens up a game of chicken in the middle section - the bigger yo...

Took yet another ****** bus with hard seats, broken a/c vents, and a rude driver glued to his obnoxious horn. Not having any air con didn't bother me much leaving Dalat and descending down the mountains, but as soon as we got to an area that looked very much like a dessert - prickly cacti, surrounded by sand - I really cursed the bus company. For a good three hours I sat in a pool of my own sweat. Good thing I was wearing dark pants, otherwise I'm sure I would've had an attractive butt print ...