Nha Trang makes you feel like you are somewhere in California. Huge high rise 5 star hotels over looking the beach, boutique shops and dozens of restaurants serving everything you can think of. We paid a hefty $17 for a large room with a balcony. Two of our days here, Dustin and Mark rented motor bikes for $4 for the day. Mark took me on a ride along the coast and it was maaaagnificent! The beautiful scenery couldn't be captured to do it justice.
The night life in Nha Trang is fairly chill, but we did manage to find buckets for $1.75. 3 shots of vodka and a red bull in one bucket. So we had a few nights of those! The boys played pool while Mary and I had girl talk. Much needed after hanging with two men for almost a month straight! It was lovely to have Mary join us in Vietnam, I hope she enjoyed her vacation as much as we enjoyed having her with us! The day she left, Dustin, Mark and I took a 25 minute scooter ride to a more private beach. We spent the day there eating fish tacos and drinking some beer. It was a great day and we all got a little too much colour!
Next stop was Mui Ne, another beach spot but a lot more chill than Nha Trang. We explored some sand dunes which was a major attraction to see there. They were sandy! Mui Ne was nice but we felt like we were in Russia as 95% of the tourists were Russian and there were many bartenders and servers who could barely speak English because they didn't really have to since most customers were from their own country! Even some Vietnamese locals spoke Russian. I guess you have to cater to your clientele. Vietnam must be Russia's Mexico.
Today, we bused back 6 hours from Mui Ne to Ho Chi Minh. We went to the War Remnants Museum this afternoon. I definitely had a bit of a history lesson as I didn't have a huge understanding of the Vietnam war. I was holding back tears at some points learning about the horrendous brutality by the Americans against so many innocent civilians, babies, women, and children. It was also interesting to see that SO many people from all over the world were protesting the brutality. Now I understand why. Citizens are still reeling from the after effects from the war in Vietnam. Agent orange (a chemical sprayed in large quantities over cities, villages and farmland) still shows itself in the thousands of people who were born mentally disabled or deformed. It even said that some U.S. soldiers were affected years later. They're wives having constant miscarriages, or their babies born deformed or disabled due to the poisoning in their own bodies. Super sad stuff.
Tonight, we shall go back to the amazing Pho restaurant that we went to when we were here two weeks ago. Tomorrow, we are off to Phnom Penh, Cambodia!
Here are some pictures from the last week or so. Unfortunately, since I'm blogging from my iPhone, I can't put captions on the pictures. Hopefully they are all straight forward after reading this!
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