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Saturday 26th October - Nha Trang
Up at 7 for a walk north along the promenade towards the harbour mouth. The hotels seemed to be bigger than ever & quite a few bathers were on the beach on the loungers or in the sea. We walked about 2k to a restaurant for a coffee & watched as the fishing trawlers came around a rocky reef to enter the river mouth. As we watched a small circular coracle, about 2m diameter came out in front of us with 2 men in it about 50 m off shore. One was paddling & the other was tending what appeared to be a net & some cray pots, all in quite a nasty swell which was partially broken by the reef. I was surprised how well the little boat could be manoeuvred but one man was bailing most of the time so that it was shipping water & I certainly wouldn't want to have been in it. We returned for breakfast & after we did some shopping for gifts etc. In one shop many of the leather bags had a tag suggesting they were made of dog hide but luckily we didn’t fancy any of the designs.
After checking out we took a cab to Cam Ranh airport about 30 km south, passing huge holiday complexes on the way & following around a cliff area for a few kms.
We flew from there to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), formerly Saigon, in less than an hour & then took a taxi to our hotel which is in a lane in District 1 near the centre of the city. The 500m alley where we are is full of bars & restaurants & is a bit lively at night but our hotel room is very comfortable. For the next stage we talked to the hotel about tours of the Mekong delta & chose a cheap 2 day one starting tomorrow at 7.00am.
Up at 7 for a walk north along the promenade towards the harbour mouth. The hotels seemed to be bigger than ever & quite a few bathers were on the beach on the loungers or in the sea. We walked about 2k to a restaurant for a coffee & watched as the fishing trawlers came around a rocky reef to enter the river mouth. As we watched a small circular coracle, about 2m diameter came out in front of us with 2 men in it about 50 m off shore. One was paddling & the other was tending what appeared to be a net & some cray pots, all in quite a nasty swell which was partially broken by the reef. I was surprised how well the little boat could be manoeuvred but one man was bailing most of the time so that it was shipping water & I certainly wouldn't want to have been in it. We returned for breakfast & after we did some shopping for gifts etc. In one shop many of the leather bags had a tag suggesting they were made of dog hide but luckily we didn’t fancy any of the designs.
After checking out we took a cab to Cam Ranh airport about 30 km south, passing huge holiday complexes on the way & following around a cliff area for a few kms.
We flew from there to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), formerly Saigon, in less than an hour & then took a taxi to our hotel which is in a lane in District 1 near the centre of the city. The 500m alley where we are is full of bars & restaurants & is a bit lively at night but our hotel room is very comfortable. For the next stage we talked to the hotel about tours of the Mekong delta & chose a cheap 2 day one starting tomorrow at 7.00am.
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