Vietnam: Nha Trang

As soon as we arrived in Nha Trang at 6am, Scott claimed "I love Nha Trang." The sky was blue, the beach was sparkling, and it had a slightly Gold Coast feel to it, minus most of the skyscrapers.

It was much busier than Hoi An, but not nearly as crazy as Hanoi, so we got scooters and explored the main beach strip and the streets behind our hotel and feel like we know it really well by now (I think we've been here for a whole week?!) I may struggle to get Scott to leave!

Our adventures here included...

Nadeane and I had a ladies night out as all the boys slept off their sunburn, and checked out the bars as she pretended to be Aussie (and failed miserably when she had never heard of vegemite... noooorr :P)

We scootered around some great ocean road-type scenery to find a path through a village to a waterfall to jump into (I think all travellers are obsessed with jumping off things!)

Went across a cable-car thing over the ocean to an island called 'Vinpearl' which is owned by a resort with a private beach and amusement park! So went on the waterslides and a really lame '4D cinema' ride, the boys played some arcade games, we ate icecream and came home.

One morning I woke up sick as a dog with a cold/fluey thing and so spent a couple of days dragging myself from bed to beach and back (the annoying thing about Vietnam in low season is that they shut off the power every second day from 6.30am til 5.30pm so there's no aircon, fans, tv, or even electric cooking appliances in most restaurants) so I couldn't just stay in the room all day sleeping, it was too hot! And the beach is really windy, so if you don't like being whipped by sand, we did things like scootering to markets and getting massages/ pedicures... can't complain I guess!

Scott refused to acknowledge that Nha Trang might be souring on us when our scooter was taken back by the owner, it was suddenly missing a mirror, and the same day someone tried to sell his passport back to him... But no money lost, and he still loves Nha Trang! (I think its the food.)

It was here our fellowship was broken... Drew pushed onto Mui Ne after only 2 days, Matt caught a plane back to Hanoi, and Nadeane and I went on a girls day trip to Mui Ne before she left for HCMC.