Nha Trang

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As we settle on the sand for a nice day at the beach a young girl comes up to us with a basket of misc products and says 'you buy something' we say no thankyou.
4.5 seconds later another young girl comes up with a bottle of water and says 'you want water, you thirsty, you buy something, maybe later'
7 seconds later another basket girl comes up and the process is repeated..

i have never been so popular in my life, what a great beach.. why walk to the shop when someone can bring a basket containing pinapple, tiger balm, postcards, cigars, mentos and of course a compass.

However, this can become tedious especially when a 12 year old girl verbally abuses one of the girls with us because she wont buy anything... probably the funniest day of my life cus boy was she good at sending abuse... she also clamped onto my friends leg and refused to let go, even when threatened to be dragged into the sea.


Whilst on this beach i have also worked out a way to deter beach pick pockets..

Firstly you will notice a lone guy walk past you, then another, then another, all looking at what you have, you bags etc, cameras..

Then if you turn around they will coeincidently be all together 20 meters behind you..

This is when you stand up and wave.


Nah trang is full of bars, a bit westernised but a few beers wont hurt.

At one of the many bars, i sat with a local chap called thang, what a nice chap.. he told me everything i need to know about vietnamesse life - he earns 15 pounds a month at a restaurant. i told him how much we earnt so i brought him a beer. he invited me to his restaurnat the next day, he mentioned snake.

The next day we went snorkelling, loads of fish loads of coral... nuts. i was mainly 15 ft down trying to swim into shoals of fish - after.. we needed food.

Some would walk to a restaurant, some would hear of snake and run.. this was i... i met thang and i picked out a snake..
I held it in the restaurant and by the look on the waitresses faces this doesnt happen very often..
After a photo session, including other travellers wanting picks of me and suzie the snake... thang cut off its head.. and drained the blood into a glass with some vodka.. so i drank it.
couple minutes later he brought me its heart and kidney in another glass of vodka, you could feel the heart beat as it went down.. crazy... SPARTAN...

After a few more beers, a few more swims (including the bar with pool) and meeting a few hundred more travellers as usual, my wallet was full of email contacts, no cash and Nha trang was done..

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Photos

Fellow travellers
Adopting the 'One Million Dong'posse

Comments

[Styx]

This is SPARTA!!!!
We are with you sire! For Sparta, for freedom, to the death! oh and you might like to know that ive ditched both crutches now and am only walkin wiv a slight Spartan limp!! Fight on my brothers!

[Jourden]

eeeuuuggghhh
i know im not spartan but to eat nd drink that i would rather not be. good spirit get right in there!!! im sure ur like a local now. take care tom. x