Nha Thrang

With the hope of escaping the torrential downpours and little sunshine of the south, we decided to head further north to Nha Trang; a super duper touristy wee beach town, but with nice sandy beaches and incredibly warm waters. We decided to take stock here for a couple of days to blob around the beach and indulge ourselves with the amaaaaazing seafood on offer! The first day of blobbing, a Vietnamese lady landed by our beach beds, completely ridden with buckets and buckets of fresh seafood, and lots of crabbies! You can imagine the excitement that swept over Hanna, and so we splashed out and bought a real nice seafood platter for lunch and nibbled on crab claws and shit whilst sunbathing. It was pretty cool.

The next day we wanted to be kinder to our skins, and so rented a scooter and headed out of Nha Trang to a nice spa. We spotted a super cool and old pagoda on the way and we even got professional photographs taken  in different spots and positions around this pagoda which made it a highly memorable and worthwhile stop. And on we went to hunt down this spa. It was well worth the hunt: we soaked and soaked ourselves in the mudbath, before moving on to the hot springs were we happened to meet a super rich Vietnamese couple who happily agreed to show us where to get real nice Vietnamese fodder in this super touristy town. Little did we expect, they took us to this PHENOM seafood restaurant a little further out, and we ordered every kind of sea creature under the sun and ate and ate and ate until our tummies exploded. And the best bit: the super rich couple treated us to the whole meal! Woweee! What a nice couple.

The rest of the time spent here mainly consisted of sitting on our bums on the beach nibbling on rambutans (our new-found favourite fruit!) and rounded off with a failed Western-style night out: since we were here and struggled to find authentic Vietnamese restaurants, we took the opportunity to satisfy our pasta cravings and ate at an Italian restaurant (our pastas were gross and expensive and we left with rumbling tums - angry!) before heading to some bar and played Connect-4 and being perved on by Perve Deluxe Man where we had to lie and say we were 30 year old women to escape his sliminess. All-in-all, an interesting evening which resulted in us being back in bed with boxes and boxes of Laughing Cow cheese and crisps!

We are now back south again in another wee beach town called Mui Ne, the beaches are pretty much perfect, with very few people, but we've had to take shelter as it's windy-windy and raining. Tomorrow we're planning on heading further inland to a place called Dalat, where it's meant to be super cold and where we are hoping to satisfy Hanna's craving for aubergine (they grow lots of veg here apparently). So, until then little friends!