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Published: June 24th 2009
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So after leaving Mui Ne the sleepy little beach side resort we were ready for bigger things, we headed for Nha Trang having heard the reputation of it being a party town and were well aware of what lay ahead of us. We arrived around 6.30pm and found a guesthouse (called nice) and settled on a $9 A/C fully loaded room. We dumped our stuff and went out for a wander and a bite to eat, we found a nice italian and sat down to watch the world go by. After a full belly and a few beers we wandered down the road and went into crazy kims bar for a few buckets, we sat and played cards and just relaxed after the days travells. After the bar we headed for the beach to see what was occuring, we were a little merry and when a cyclo driver comes past and offers me a lift in return I offer to drive him, so i jump on the bike and have a go, Katie gets to have a spin too. We find you have to pay 60'000vnd to get into the sailing club (the place everyone goes) so decide not to and
call it a night.
The next day we did as we always do and headed for the tour shops to find out what was available. We found a boat tour called "4 islands" for only $6 each, so we thought sweet we will have a piece of that and signed ourselves up. After that we headed down to the beach and nestled in for a few hours of tannage. We returned a few hours later slightly wet and definately a bit crispy! just check Katies nose! At about 3pm we decided to have a wander round and check out the restaurants in preperation for the nights meal. As we wander past a bar called "Oz Bar" i notice the F1 is on the tv and Katie says lets stop so you can watch it, in the bar the beers are only 10'000vnd and its the same price for a double vodka and coke, so we had a few drinks and got chatting to the local ex pats, 4hrs later we stumble out of the bar agreeing to meet them again later. So we go back to the hotel get showered and then return to the same bar for some
grub. We both went straight for the same meal, fish and chips .....................WITH CURRY SAUCE!!! come on! it was bloody lush! So we carry on drinking.........having not stopped since 3pm, and end up best mates with a guy called Mike. Mike takes us to a bar that has connect 4 in it and we all start playing each other for drinks, it gets very messy very quickly and before we know it people are winning and not knowing about it and we all just drink anyway!
Mike ends up being best mates with the manager of the local club (the sailing club), and he blags us in for free and the old boy that runs the joint ends up plying us with free "jam Jars" (the eqivilant of the buckets in thailand), so we spend the whole night dancing the night away with our new friends on the sand, oh and Katie becomes best mates with a few local vietnamese girls! lol
We awake the next morning for our boat trip very tired and very very hungover, drag ourselves out of bed and wait in the lobby to be collected. The guy that turns up honestly looks like
he eats babies for breakfast, a proper scary looking dude! He ushers us into a minibus with other people and head to the harbour, we jump on the boat and off we go. Everyone is looking at the floor and not speaking to anyone all unaware of whats going to happen, and im thinking great this is gonna be proper boring. Then the same scary looking guy gets up on the microphone and explains that this is the Nha Trang Party Boat and he turns out to be an absolutely top geezer! Everyone starts to relax and get chatting to one and other and it starts to get interesting. Our first stop was at a local aquarium on one of the islands, the tanks here are far too small for the huge fish they house. They also have an outdoor aquarium which has sea turtles in it..........now Katie falls head over heels in love with these things and i manage to get them to come right up and we can touch them.
After this we head to another island where we stop for an hr or two to do some snorkling, so the water here is not too clear
and not great fish so after half hr we both climb out, and i decide a few beers is in order, so im on the booze! Then a few others come over and we get on it big time! The boat then cruises to another cove on another island and they lay out this huge lunch which was lush! after lunch they cleared the food and used the space as a stage and the Scary guy Loc informs us a special band has flown in, and the crew bring out guitars and a drum set and they played a set on the stage and everyone is dancing and singing, 2 more boats pull up and watch the stupid tourists rip it up! Katie ended up getting dragged onto stage in front of maybe 150 people and had to sing the Backstreet Boys with one of the band members lol
After the band, Loc informs us that the bar is open, and he points to the water where there is a guy sitting in a floating ring with some vodka concoction ready to dish it out! so everyone piles into the water and pulls up to the bar. They tell
us that nobody is allowed to say the word NO and if you do you must drink. Now it turns out im pretty rubbish at this gave as 15 of these vodka things later im proper smashed! i get chatting to the guitarist from the band and we hit it off so much so he actually gives me the shirt off his own back lol so im now a member of the crew!
We got back to the harbour and we arranged to meet 5 of the people from the boat for dinner. I turn up to dinner still smashed from the boat and we all had a meal together, then the food turns to alcohol which turns to cards which turns to "ring of fire" and once again we are dancing away and playing drink or dare! What a messy evening!
So we are off to Hoi An tommorrow on the sleeper bus, and we are going with the people from the boat trip, so watch this space......
Scott & Katie
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