Sunny Day in Nha Trang

After a great buffet breakfast at our hotel, we walked along the waterfront noticing the beautiful flower arrangements celebrating the New Year, some interesting buildings, and some insane wiring on the electrical posts, which I’m not sure would be up to code in the western world! We walked down some some side streets until we found the Cho Dam Market. Hundreds of stalls in this indoor and outdoor market and so much to look at - fruit, vegetables, dried fish, meat, clothes, bags, belts - you name it, they have it! Spent about an hour and a half looking around and bought a couple of things, then headed back along the beach back to our hotel. It was a hot one today around 31 degrees and we were dripping by the time we got back!

We decided to go down to the beach for a few hours - our hotel has its own beach area with sun loungers and beach towels so we set ourselves up to catch some rays. Lots of interesting vendors walking along the beach, selling the usual fruit, clothes and jewelry, but one lady passed by with a hot charcoal pan with a pot of boiling water on top and fresh lobsters in the pot!

We lost our sun around 4:30 so went back to the hotel to rest then clean up for dinner. Nha Trang is definitely a happening town and comes to life at night! The majority of tourists here are from Russia, which is evidenced by the signs at many businesses, and the menus at the restaurants, which have Vietnamese, English and Russian translations of all their food. The place we went to tonight even had a whole section of Russian dishes on the menu! Had yet another great meal - the food here has been so good - then walked around some side and back streets checking out restaurants, bars and entertainment in the area. There are lots of restaurants with outside grills - one of which had a crocodile on the spit!! Then there are many tubs of live seafood, where the poor victims are pulled out and also tossed on the grill! 😳

As we were walking back to our hotel, we came across a place which offered 60 minute foot massages for 160,000 Vietnamese Dong - about $9 Canadian - so figured we would treat our aching feet and had massages from two delightful young Vietnamese girls. One of them spoke very good English and told us she is studying at university to become a tour guide! Back to the hotel and time for some 😴’s before tomorrow’s adventure!Read more