Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

Nha Trang seems like years ago now, but I suppose it was just last week. I know I’ve been slack with the updating but I won’t bother with excuses. So here goes.

Nha Trang was definitely not my favourite Vietnamese town. There was just something about it that felt half way between seedy and cheesy. It is a major tourist destination as Nha Trang has the largest municipal beach in the country, but as far as I was concerned that’s about all it had. Although to be fair, we never really tried to find out if there was anything else.

We spent both days just relaxing on the beach which is usually ideal for me, but this left a bit to be desired. We were asked about every 30 minutes if we wanted to buy something from the ladies who were illegally selling souvenirs up and down the beach. They aren’t supposed to be selling anything on the beach and had to hide every time they saw a police officer walk by to avoid paying the “fine”.  We eventually gave in and bought a few things and gave the woman a place to stash her goods to escape being caught.  The selling didn’t bother me as much as the general dirtiness of the beach. There were cigarette butts and trash all through the sand and Jacob even had the pleasure of spotting a dead animal in the water and a rather large one at that.

While the beach wasn’t perfect we did get to spend a good part of our time  with our friends Hannah and Melissa. We celebrated our last days together in Vietnam as they were planning on kicking around for a while and we were out of time. We paid a visit to the local ice bar where the cold room was -9 degrees! They were really quite proud of how cold it was and the locals looked like they wanted to die instead of serving us in there. After the ice bar we finished off the evening with a dance at the beach side bar to re-acclimatize ourselves.