Tram Huong Hotel Nha Trang

Not much to report today. We spent most of the day on a bus. It's roughly 300 km as the crow flys, but it took the bus about 9 hours. We were travelling at 80 or 90 kph for most of it, so the road must take a long way around. Anyway, we've never seen a bus quite like it either. It was a sleeper bus. Check out the pics. Didn't see a lot of bush. Mostly it was culivation of various kinds.

... to move on, although we’ve decided now that we’re a week behind to forego the South of China and spend the rest of November taking our time through Vietnam. We’ll fly straight to my sister’s place in Zhengzhou on the 30th of November as long as we can get Kristian’s Chinese visa sorted at the embassy in Hanoi.

Hoi An here we come… finally… for crying out loud!

... had to read though 2 sections and then answer a few questions, on the chapter, we thought it would only take 30minutes at the most, it wasn't until we noticed the 2 sections were 140 pages.

You can work out for yourself what we did for the next couple of evenings, it was like being back at school.First day, Leah was very apprehensive as we all know she isn't that comfortable in water but really wanted to scuba dive.

After the morning in the classroom we headed to the Navy ...

My memory is getting worse- I can't remember what I do! The overnight train was so much fun!! It was really nice- We shared with Nicola and Kirsty, in a tiny cabin room with bunkbeds- and a tv!! But you could only watch the channel the driver had on- which was pretty awful- but provided us with much entertainment. Had quite a decent sleep, but woke because the air conditioning was soooo cold. We got in at 5 in the morn and when we got ...

... it's the train, the best idea is always the first idea. Some of these travel agents are bloody unscrupulous, may they come back as a snake in VN in their next life, to be caught, drowned in rice wine and drunk by the delinquent bus drivers. The only good news is that we didn't waste $50 on these *******s, as we're doubtful it would've made a difference anyway.

Apart from the hair-raising transport experience, we got to Nha Trang ...

... then usual on a hotel, just because it had a swimming pool! So the first day we splashed around AND even ordered a hot chocolate by the pool when it started to get chilly, (which by the way isn't often here!)

We found a really lovely little family run cafe by the beach to eat our dinner in, when we asked for stir fried veg and steamed rice, we were surprised to hear that they had no vegetable what so ever as a result of the flooding just 3 days ...

... basically was everyone in the water with a life ring and a guy from the boat in a bigger floating device handing out cups of some type of tequila cocktail.
It was insane! The pics are up on Facebook if you want to have a nosey.
We all had a big night after the boat trip - drinking buckets of cocktails and dancing - so we had pretty sore heads the next morning!

Being very hungover today ...

... look at but is set right on 6km of sandy beach. Nice!
Not long passed before we realised that there was a huge party on that night at the 'Sailing Club'.
Ten minutes after sitting down in a bar to have dinner we joined a group of ten people to drink a 'fish tank' full of spirits! Good fun and made for a lively evening!
The ...

... feeling from the cocktails) I took on the role of social sec, organising to meet some of the peeps from our trip in a bar later that night. I could not join my own self-created party though, as I took a turn for the worse and lay feeling sick in bed. Stupidly, when I mustered up the strength to go for dinner I ordered seafood spaghetti. Alas, shortly after I was not feeling well again. No detail needed there.

The day after we booked another night bus, headed for Hoi An.

... lay out on and we were on the bottom so we had a table to play cards on. They only bad thing about the train is the time, it left at 2pm and took 9 hours, so daytime traveling. There is no announcer to know when we arrive at our destination, not that it would've been in English anyway, but the coach attendant opens your cabin and starts folding the blanket, that's the hint.

So we made it late into ...