The fun of floating bars at Nha Trang

Our overnight train from Saigon was pretty good, better than the ones in Thailand as you get 4 bed cabins and so a bit of privacy.

We had a couple of days in Nha Trang which is on the coast, it has very british feel to it though, at first glance it could have been any british seaside!

We spent our first day relaxing on the beach on our nice sun loungers, I say relaxing, we only managed to relax for about 3 minutes at a time as we were constantly pestered by people selling us everything from massages to seafood, it was really annoying, and they were so persistant. Rich and I ended up having massages and pedicures just so everyone else would leave us alone for a bit!!!! Apart from that though it was a lovely beach, the sun was shining and the sea was warm. Despite being under an umbrella all day and wearing factor 60, Rich and I still got sunburnt....it is bloody hot in Vietnam.....hot n'shitty!

On our second day Rich and I had booked to go on an island tour, it was only $6. The bus picked us up and took us to the boat and it was absolutely heaving, loads of people on the tour, we were a bit disappointed at this, but the guides told us what the itenery for the day was and he seemed like he wanted to make it fun. The first stop was to snorkel, there were about 3 other tour boats there plus a dive boat and so that meant there were about 100 snorkelers and a hand full of divers all in the same area, not good, we had a little snorkel but gave up as there were too many people and the coral was shit too. So, so far we weren't particularly happy. Back on the boat and we moved to a different spot and had some lunch up on the top deck of the boat. Lunch was really good, we were impressed with that, we got chatting to some Aussies, a canadian girl and an english fella and they became our 'gang' for the rest of the day! After lunch our guide told us it was happy hour at the floating bar but we couldn't go in the water until our food had gone down and so he and the crew set about entertaining us with their 'band'. And entertaining it was, they were very funny and got everyone us dancing on the tables, Cheesy stuff but it put us all in a good mood. And then the floating bar opened. We all jumped in the water and were given rubber rings and made our way to the bar where we were given a plastic cup of mulberry wine. Now, when he said happy hour, he meant an hour, the mulberry wine just kept on coming for an hour, and it was free so everyone had plenty. The barman was even pouring it straight into peoples mouths, especially the aussies, they got very pissed!! We did take plenty of pictures but on our waterproof camera and we've not had chance to put them onto a disc to upload to here, so you'll have to check them out in a couple of weeks (maybe!)

When we all wobbled back to the boat pretty much everyone was steaming. We stopped a bit later on at an island resort and we spent our time sat with the aussies drinking beer, it was much fun.

That evening we got on another overnight train to Hoi An, Rich and I met up with the rest of the group in a very wobbly state which they found very amusing!