No baby no problem

Trip Start Sep 17, 2007
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Trip End Oct 08, 2008


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Friday, March 21, 2008

Nha Trang is a beach resort, and as such not really my cup of tea.  But the diving was nice, so it made it a worthwhile stop.  The other "must do" in Nha Trang is the famous island-hopping boat tour.  A bunch of places sell tickets, but you all seem to get thrown on the same boats.  They pack you in like sardines and you head out for the first of four islands you visit during the trip.  Our leader identified himself as Slim Jim.  He was insane.  He also liked to hear himself talk.  During his first speech he answered his phone several times to have a conversation.  Then he offered us all sea urchin soup, a supposed aphrodisiac.  Most of the Vietnamese men took him up on the expensive, small portion. 

We could go swimming and snorkelling at the first island.  Even though the boat seemed to park directly over the only patch of coral in the area, there was still plenty to see making a splash
making a splash
 .  Lots of fish, urchins, and sea slugs.  Lots of little jellyfish as well, which drove me out of the water sooner than Erin.  It was a beautiful day and we would later be rewarded with painful sunburns. 

At the second island we could again go swimming, and our leader got out the microphone and gave us all a concert of "traditional" Vietnamese songs.  The crew brought out a drum set and a couple other instruments.  It was kind of strange.  When he got bored with that he jumped headlong into the water and transformed himself into a floating bar.  It wasn't very glamorous, just a piece of styrefoam, a flower, and two bottles of awful red wine.  But it was pretty fun to float on an innertube and drink wine in the ocean.  Slim Jim's favorite saying, which he blurted out every five minutes or so, was: "No money no hunny, no hunny no baby, no baby no problem." 

On our third island we got dropped off on a beach.  There were many ways to spend your money here, including jet ski and parachuting from a motorboat.  We bought a chair and watched the people get flung off the beach by their parachute.  It was also fun to watch them plunge back into the ocean. 

The fourth island had a very strange aquarium.  It was a giant boat scuplture with large tanks inside.  They had a giant saltwater aquarium, a big tank of groupers, and a strange combination of sea turtles and moray eels. 

All in all it was a fun tour and an interesting day. 

~Travis
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