Wake up!
The beach city of Nha Trang Vietnam
We started out our day with breakfast on the first floor of the hotel in the breakfast room. Breakfast was good, with a mixture of European and Vietnamese foods. There were 3 dry cereal options, corn flake, rice crisps and coco-puffs. The coffee was hot and weaker than other places we’ve been. The watermelon was once again delicious. There was also dragon fruit but no passion fruit today. We took a picture of the work of art on display for breakfast. We’re not sure who gets to eat the flowering watermelon sculpture. Someone has talent on the kitchen crew! The breakfast included Pho, or eggs to order if you wish. So many choices and no room to store the food!
As we were leaving the breakfast room, we were approached by Maria, an associate with the hotel. She knew our name! We are an anomaly in Nha Trang. She asked us; how was our room? Was the A/C working ok? Did we have plans to tour the city? We could borrow bicycles if we wanted or rent a motor scooter…. Another very warm welcome to us as foreigners in Vietnam. Very nice! We did mention the one reading light by the bed was like a strobe light and she called maintenance right away and they were in our room and had it replaced in minutes!
Yesterdays trip from the Cam Ranh airport took about 45 minutes. The drive is literally through desert like costal highway. Sand dunes and hotel construction are the only thing you see besides the ocean. It looks like a Las Vegas hotel strip on steroids. We must have passed by 20 or 30 huge buildings under construction along the highway, and that was before we entered the city of Nha Trang. The main reason we even looked at coming here was the cost of flights, cheap! $95.04 USD for 2 tickets from Da Nang, a one hour flight.
There is one road (many kilometres in length) along the the beach in Nha Trang and we are one block off the beach on a side street. The side street is cool, with stores and vendors for the whole block. We may wish we had allocated more time for this city. We’ll see. We are on our quest for the perfect location. We are not the whitest skinned people here in Nha Trang, there are many Russians and the signs everywhere indicate that they are a huge tourist component here. Menus, please keep quiet signs, directions etc, all in Vietnamese, Russian and English.
Thank Google for Google Translate! We use it on a daily basis. Another interesting fact, we purchased two sim cards for our phones for $8USD each when we arrived in Vietnam, they are still working and have a 2Gb data limit per day. I have made several local calls and received a few as well. We have also used local SMS. They have excellent Data 3G, 4G and LTE speeds here. The cost of living hasn’t caught up to Vietnam yet. By the way they are building hotels in this area, it will happen eventually. The hospitality industry here is so polite and accommodating, it is quite overwhelming.
Here are some pictures from the beach and walk back today.
