Nha Trang
Train = great! Happy Room surprisingly happy. Arrived at Nha Trang at 6am having actually slept for once. (Still had a 3 hour nap this afternoon, but nevermind).
Nha Trang is supposedly the beach capital of Vietnam, and there is one long beach spanning the entire length of the town. The sea is actually warm; such a change from Wales, where I normally go in the UK. On Rhossilli beach, as lovely as it is, I do have to walk about 2 miles out into the sea to get out of your depth, and then I'm so damn cold I can only swim until I'm physically shivering, then hike back to shore to get 'warm'. Here I was out of my depth about 4m in. The sand is also extremely hot, so I ended up just standing on the bit that gets covered by the broken wave (I may have started investigating the scour characteristics around my foot - no conclusions as yet...)
In Nha Trang, sunglasses are the new tuk-tuk. If you forget to take yours out you get hounded by people selling brightly coloured Primark-esque varieties, and if you do remember to wear your own, it's not much better.
A couple of the locals seem to have learned the phrase 'lovely jubbly' and like exploiting it on anyone they see. Makes a change from "England. Capital London." but still pretty annoying.
The food for dinner was fairly adequate, but the restaurant decor was 'interesting' - photos of very old / wrinkly / everything pointing downwards vietnamese women hung on the walls. I was also amused by the fact that the young son of the owner appeared to keep his reading books in the fridge.
Train = great! Happy Room surprisingly happy. Arrived at Nha Trang at 6am having actually slept for once. (Still had a 3 hour nap this afternoon, but nevermind).
Nha Trang is supposedly the beach capital of Vietnam, and there is one long beach spanning the entire length of the town. The sea is actually warm; such a change from Wales, where I normally go in the UK. On Rhossilli beach, as lovely as it is, I do have to walk about 2 miles out into the sea to get out of your depth, and then I'm so damn cold I can only swim until I'm physically shivering, then hike back to shore to get 'warm'. Here I was out of my depth about 4m in. The sand is also extremely hot, so I ended up just standing on the bit that gets covered by the broken wave (I may have started investigating the scour characteristics around my foot - no conclusions as yet...)
In Nha Trang, sunglasses are the new tuk-tuk. If you forget to take yours out you get hounded by people selling brightly coloured Primark-esque varieties, and if you do remember to wear your own, it's not much better.
A couple of the locals seem to have learned the phrase 'lovely jubbly' and like exploiting it on anyone they see. Makes a change from "England. Capital London." but still pretty annoying.
The food for dinner was fairly adequate, but the restaurant decor was 'interesting' - photos of very old / wrinkly / everything pointing downwards vietnamese women hung on the walls. I was also amused by the fact that the young son of the owner appeared to keep his reading books in the fridge.
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