V6 - nothing much happened except for one loooooong bus ride from Saigon at 7:30am to Nha Trang reaching the place at 5:00pm. They gave us a small bus - Saigon Tourist. What a rip off! And the aircon was not working so we have to open the damn windows. About the only good thing on the way was the scenery and the food.
Scenery - there's a township along the way where we saw the KARST formation. It's like what we studied in school. Mountains and hills of hard stone were swished into various outcroppings of pure white stone sculptures everywhere and the water was so blue, it was near perfect. Along the way, we also past by two enormous pillars of the old Cham empire. It's a race that has been more or less wiped out from the face of the earth long ago.
Food - we had a delicious local vegetarian fried noodle. Simple but really yummy n not at all greasy. Dinner was unbelievable at USD8 for two. BTW the dishes are fixed size n can feed 4 people. Anyway, the food are: a "tomyam" like fish soup, Vietnamese springroll n fish sauce (huge sized springroll n not like those I had in SSLeo or Malaysia), fried rice, wild boar in lemon grass, n a funky western/vietnamese salad. Oh yeah! And we finished off with SAIGON beer. Local brew. Quite smooth.
NHA TRANG - after dinner, we went for a walk to the beach front. Pretty long stretch. There's the usual cuttlefish, junk food, an amusement park, lots of hotel but not on the beach itself, some coffee place and some art n souvenir place. We visited the handicraft display-cum-musuem and it's really terrific with both ethnic n modern pieces of silk paintings, silk sticthes, pottery, etc.
After that, we visited the local COFFEE BAR and watched some locals performing their tunes. It's karaoke on the stage with a live backing band. And like home, some people were great while others simply sucked.
V7 - island hopping.
V8 - ancient civilization.
V9 - HUE.
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