We arrived quite early and Jess had read that we should be dropped off not far from our accommodation, so we set off in search of the place. When we finally found it, it wasn't far, but with heavy rucksacks, it felt far, but we had managed to book ourselves into two different hostels. They have two, close by to each other, but they were nice enough to allow us to change our booking so that the three of us could stay together. Having not had the best sleep in the world, we decided to spend the day on the beach.
Our friend Rosie from home had recently moved to Vietnam and was currently sunning herself in Nha Trang. Myself, Kay and Rosie met up for drinks that night which was lovely. We can't manage to organise ourselves to see each other when we are both in Scotland but, put us on the other side of the world and somehow it works out!
The next day, Kay, Jess and I went to a thermal spa. They had mineral mud baths where we caked ourselves in mud and then dried off in the sun. This was followed by a vigorous shower and then some time in the hot springs. The perfect place to spend a hangover and Valentine's Day.
That night we went to an ice bar with the other girl in our 4-bed dorm room. As I'm sure you can imagine, it was freezing! Minus 10 degrees Celsius! We were given gloves, scarf, huge jacket and Uggs before we went in. The whole place was made of ice including the glasses. We only stayed long enough to have one drink and take some pictures, our noses would have fallen off if we stayed much longer! We had a few drinks at another bar after to warm up.
We decided the next day to move to another hostel as we felt that ours was a bit on the small side. We decided between us on a hostel but when we arrived we had inadvertently booked ourselves into the only hostel smaller than our own. There was floor space for only two people in the room at a time, we had to go in in shifts. Our friend Beryl was arriving in Nha Trang that day, she had gone to Dalat for a couple of days while we were in Nha Trang. The four of us had a lazy day which consisted of, sunbathing, eating tiny burgers for dinner, then proceeding to eat a second dinner with dessert and then walking around the town to see all the lovely Tët decorations.
The next day was spent on a 'booze cruise'. The booze was severely lacking but we did get to spend some time at some nice islands and beaches. Jess, Beryl and I went snorkelling off one of the beaches while Kay went to do a scuba dive. She had been looking at some places in Nha Trang to do another dive and when they offered one on the booze cruise, for a scarily low price, she jumped at the chance. When, finally, happy hour arrived, we were able to jump off the top of the boat into the water where there was a floating bar awaiting us. Jess very aptly described this as 'Mediocre Twenty Minutes' rather than 'Happy Hour'. It was still lots of fun jumping from the top deck of the boat.
Once we had checked out the next morning, myself and Kay went to the beach so we could do some sunbathing while writing our postcards. We walked back to the accommodation so that we could make a plan for the rest of our time in Vietnam and we hadn't been there long when Beryl arrived to pick up her bikini. She had been into one of the fancy hotels at the beach to use their toilet and she noticed that they had a pool on the ground level that no one was using. She was sure that the hotel was too big for the staff to know who stayed there and who didn't so, we grabbed our bikinis too and headed to the hotel with our best 'we belong here' faces at the ready. She was right, no one batted an eyelid when we used their pool for an hour or so.
Another sleeper bus, another destination...Hoi An, here we come!
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