Well, the island hopping programme is one long ride in getting drunk. That's it. There were about twenty of us on this boat where the PIC is a Caucasian woman while all the staff are Vietnamese. All the patrons except me, my friend and a honeymooning couple were Caucasians. At the first stop, it was a snorkelling experience with some dead corals n minute jelly fish. As per my experience in Trengganu, Asians felt the sting n came up but the Caucasians can just ignore n continue swimming. Must be something about the thickness of their hide or something.
After that, it was buy your own beer every ten minutes. There was a Norwegian couple where the wife was so knocked out from last night that it took her nearly 3 hours to wake up the moment she hit the boat. And the first thing the boy friend did was buy her a beer. That's her staple diet until the end of the journey.
Second island was a stop whereby we had our lunch. Nothing special but it was a lot.
After that, we had an event called FLOATING BAR. It simply means that there was free flowing red wine from DALAT and that to drink this, u have to be in the water. I couldn't be bothered sincet there were those nice little stingers about.
Stop Number #4 was on a govt run island where everything was bloody expensive. Imagine having to pay about USD3.50 to sit on a beach reclining chair. Crazy! We all walked about n then had a drink in an oceanfront restaurant. Cheaper this way. It's quite popular with the locals though since it was kinda crowded.
Final stop was at a fishing village where they used BUMBLE BOATS. It's like a round rattan basket but big enough for about four people to sit. We paid them VND10,000 and they even let me have a go at driving it about. Then they took us to their island homes n let us see how they live their lives. Very poor. Very sad.
Dinner was another all u can eat affair at this nice restaurant we found for less than USD10. After that we walked to the train station to check the schedule to HUE. It's really strange that they can't sell us tomorrow's ticket n asked us to come back at around 1:30pm tomorrow. Ah well!
We ended the night with a coffee (real Vietnamese style!) in this place called Cafe Fuji. The place is simply beautiful with three types of seating arrangements set inside a semi-wooden structure complete with gardens n birdcage. There was traditional n modern Vietnamese music interspersed with TV broadcasts of wrestling for those so inclined.
V8 - NHA TRANG.
V9 - HUE - a first look.
V10 - HUE
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