Nha Trang Randomness
Trip Start
Aug 31, 2008
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Trip End
??? ??, 2009
Nha Trang,
Vietnam
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Day One: Arrived from Hoi An with Paul and Dave from the UK. We called this day pioneering day for the rest of the group that was to arrive on the following days from Hoi An. We discovered the beautiful beach Club called Louisiana Brew house, the local eatery called Cafe de Amis (so cheap and so good), and the popular watering hole Why Not? Here we pioneered even more and tested out the Happy Hour drinks, also known as Buckets, which consisted of six very large shots in a huge mason jar for the price of 3500 dong or basically $2.50. We then pioneered a good stumbling route back to the hotel.
Day Two: Adam from Vancouver arrived from Hoi An and we pretty much showed him what we had discovered
We Love Nha Trang
. The day and night commenced pretty much as the night before, except this time Dave spent most of the night in the DJ booth with DJ Steveo being taught how to say things in Vietnamese, of which only "hello" only stuck. Therefore the rest of the night was spent hearing xin chao about 1000 times (no lie).Day Three: The rest of the crew arrives from Hoi An. We decide to head, by gondola, to Vin Pearl land( a resort island across from Nha Trang). Bottles were drank on the 9 minute ride over. Roller coaster rides and general mayhem then commenced. We basically took over the 20+ waterslide park. You see in Canada, a group of 20 somethings walking around a family type attraction park, with bottles of very cheap vodka and rum would be frowned upon in Canada. But here in Vietnam they seem to embrace this behavior, even security, and use us to fulfill the entertainment needs for the day. By the end of the day we all returned to our lockers to discover that my key and mysteriously escaped from Adam's pocket. We told everyone to head back while him and I waited for over an hour to get my stuff. You would think that people would loose their locker keys quite often at such a place. But according to them it had never happened before. The best was when we discovered that they had been actually searching the entire waterpark for my tiny key, until finally we talked them into using a master key, and we could escape VinPearl land
Gondola
. The night that followed was typical.Day Four: This day was spent in mud. We organized the group (not a small feat by any means) to head out to the mud baths and hot springs. Great time. Big dirty bath with 10 people. Returned to celebrate the last night of Paul and Dave who had to fly home the next day to start "Uni". Also witnessed the marriage of Alice and Keith who joined together under the blessing of Jamie in the middle of the dance floor at Why Not? He wore a flattering Hawaiian print shirt, she wore a black dress, blue plastic garter, and a clear plastic bag as a veil. I was the flower girl and the ring bearer was a red blow up power ranger. It was a very classy event.
Day Five: Beach/recovery day. No booze allowed. Bed early. Bliss really.
Day Six: Woke up hangover free. Jumped on the bus to Mui Ne (small beach down 6 hours south). Looks a lot like Tofino (minus the palm trees and warm water). Lots of surfers. Proceeded to take part in the Centurion last night. 100 shots of beer in 100 minutes. I am proud to say I represented for female Canadians and did all 100. I really do not know how. I also know never again.... The sad/scary thing was that 76 beers between 9 of us only cost 80,000 dong each ( about $5.50) ...making a repeat of the game way to easy and cheap.
Today we are off on a jeep to do some sand sliding on the dunes somewhere. Saigon tomorrow!
Hope all is well with everyone!
