Nha Trang

Wow! the night buses seem to get better and better! We had a wonderful little lad who was our bus driver, so nice and considerate to his fellow drivers that every time he passed a mode of transport (car, bus, donkey cart, bicycle, slow moving cow) he would hoot to say he was coming past. Pretty much the whole journey long he was on the hooter just tooting away. He then stopped for his random 2am bus stop break and turned on all the bus lights and cranked the music to give us some tunes while we waited...
That was pretty much breaking point and Nicola then went to switch the music down. It shocks me the consideration they have for other people on buses.

Arriving in Nha Trang we gazed out the windows to the beaches to find howling winds, rain and rough seas. This was not good.We arrived and got out the bus all lacking in sleep and not happy about the weather conditions! We decided then to skip Nha Trang (cos what is the point of being at a beach town if it is always raining) and head to Saigon so at least there would be more site seeing stuff to do.

After a long breakfast we headed down the beach front and after seeing the rough seas we were glad to not be staying. it was then out to find the boys & Mads to do some site seeing. The boys had seen all the things we wanted to see so they went to Monkey Island & Mads joined us on our days adventures.
We walked to the bus station to get night buses for that night to ensure we had a spot and then went for the long walk to what felt like the other side of town to a photographers gallery which was amazing and the guy had some awesome shots.
We then went to see the white Buddha which as you are walking down the street you can see towering over the hill. We went inside and to the temple which was closing so we had to do a quick look around but got the most of it. We then walked up the hill to go see the Buddha, about half way up there was a reclining Buddha which was just massive and was quite amazing standing next to it to see the sheer size of it. Just its feet in length were about my height. It was then right to the top to see the main Buddha which was humongous (30m in height) and just towers above you.

It was then getting pretty late so we headed back to have dinner before heading off to have some more fun times on the night bus. On the way back we stopped off at a street stall to get some food for a snack which looked quite interesting and had half the people from neighbouring shops come by to tell us what things were (and to marvel at the white people buying street food) and also picked up some mystery pastries to try.

After dinner it was onto the night bus where we found out that all the locals had numbered seats (how convenient) and we the tourists got booted to the back of the bus which is a wonderful 5 person sleeper so you are pretty much on top of the person next to you and get to feel pretty much every rock you go over and JC and i didn't have foot rests so when the driver decided to brake it felt as if we would fly off. Our saving grace was that the guy didn't hoot at all. Its really never a dull moment on the night bus!