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After spending some time in the busy city of Ho Chi Minh, we were looking forward to spending some time at the beach. We booked a sleeper bus from Ho Chi Minh to Nha trang. All of our bus trips have been pleasant, however the sleeper bus is an entirely different type of animal. The seat beds taper down to a little cubby tp stick your feet into except that the cubby slopes down at a 45 degree angle making it impossible for anyone over 5ft tall to stick more than one foot at a time in there. So this on top of the unfinished roads made sleeping impossible... except for Lauren, who slept comfortably the whole 12+ hours we were traveling. We reached Nha Trang in morning and found things much slower and quieter. That day we spent most of the time at the beach playing in the warm waters and drinking beers on the lounge. That night, we found a restaurant run by a Texan and served memphis-style pork ribs (which were fall-off-the-bone delicious) with all the fixings, corn beans and coleslaw. After keeping noodles and spring roles for the last month, it was a welcome sight and we ate there three nights in a row. Our hotel was clean and, as is very common, had the kitchen at the top of the hotel so you could sit at the top with a beer and look out into the mountains. After more beach time, we went on an amazing snorkling tour around the small local islands. We were intimately inntroduced to the stings of the small (silver dollar-sized) jellyfish in the waters. The sting was only slightly painful and only lasted for about a minute. The problem was that some areas that you had to swim through had quite a few. At the third diving spot, LC came face-to-face with a Jelly the size of a volleyball and swam back to the boat faster than I have ever seen. We spent the rest of our time at Nha Trang on the beach. We boarded another sleeper bus for a 15-hr sleeper bus to head up to Hoi An and wisely requested the back of the bus, free of the foot cubbies. We both slept moderately well. More to come about Hoi An and Vietnam
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