Sunny Beach Nha Trang

... Nha Trang harbor. The visibility was about 4 meters so not great. We completed all the tasks with flying colours, Leah managed to take her mask off and swim a few meters and put it back on, with no trouble.<br><br>Then we went for some fun swimming, where we went down to 12 meters and swam around looking at the coral and fish. There were loads of beautiful coloured fish, my favourite being the Long fin banana fish, the colours are so bright and detailed. We also saw, multicolored wrasse ...

We spent our last day in Hanoi going to see the Ho Chi Minn museum (we couldn't see the Mausoleum as his body was in Russia being re-waxed). The museum was the worst i&#8217;ve ever been to. They didn&#8217;t explain anything about his life, what he did, why he was arrested or how he died. But we did see the comb they used to brush his hair on his death and a replica chair that would have been in his house when he was younger!! Also lots of random artwork about ...

... at an aquarium we headed back to Nha Trang - all this for just $10 NZ!!! Jordan and Amanda recommended a restaurant to us which we went to that evening, it turned out to be as good as they said - even giving us free beer. A great end to a pretty good day!<br> Tuesday 13th October - Nha Trang<br> Last night we booked a cooking class at a restaurant called 'Lanterns', so we headed there to meet our hostess, Lam. She produced a menu for us and we chose some dishes from ...

... to intense pressure from some of the others in the group we traveled out of the hotel grounds only to find that no where in Nha Trang seems to sell food. i walked for a good hour before i found somewhere that would sell me something of any size. Managed to eat at a restaurant next to a dive shop, this was one of the reasons that i wanted to go to Nha Trang, managed to look through and find the dives that i wanted to do. not a bad price, think it was $40 dollars for 2 dives!!! (next ...

... really Simon's cup of tea but bless him he humours me.... (transformers.... need i say more!!).<br><br>The beach was less touristy than i feared and very blue which was lovely.  somehow today Simon mand\aged ro get sunburbnt in the shade??  How?<br><br>So he is a little red and sore.  We are going by train tonight to Ho Chi MInh city (AKA Saigon) and will ...

... old town stopping for a few drinks and snacks here &amp; there. Checked out the clothing etc and generally just took in the local atmosphere. Booked the trip to &#8216;My Son&#8217; holyland, temple ruins of Champa civilisation. Coach turned up about half an hour late so the visit round the ruins ended up being a bit more rushed than it should have been. Took the coach there and opted for the river cruise boat trip back for the return journey.<br><br>On the return we stopped ...

... br><br>The Hotel we stayed in was very nice but the staff we're the best part, they we're really lovely people, they even found out from Sarah's passport (which they had to mind) that it was her birthday &amp; they bought her a cake &amp; brought it up to the room to suprise her!<br><br>Next we're off to Ho Chi Minh city or Saigon as it's also called!<br><br>Ferg &amp; Sarah<br>

... lady with a body of a tree trunk on legs that resemble stilts walks by. She is topless! YIKES! The Vietnamese women are very conservative. They go into the water fully clothed! Granted that may only be a t-shirt and shorts but still! I wear my bikini but I don't walk around in it, it's not cool!<br>I don't know what was worse, the fact that she was so disrespectful to the local people or the fact that I had to bear witness to this horrific looking woman and her breasts ...

... simply amazing. Its weird, when Im teaching, I just think of the students in the classroom context and it doesnt even occur to me to wonder what they do outside of class, but after talking to them I was stunned. Two of them are marine biologists doing research at the local institue, a couple are training to become doctors, one is a researcher into flu viruses and the others are all studying for degrees in subjects like international commerce or politics ...

Arrived at 6am this morning after another long bus drive (12 hours !!!). Hostel took a bit of finding. Ended up getting a moto here. Got ripped off. Basicly drove round the block and dropped me off on the other side of the road to where I was, charged my 10,000 ...