When we went to buy bus tickets from Dalat to Nha Trang the ticket lady told us our bus trip would be about five to six hours long, and knowing that it should only be about three to four we asked why. She reluctantly told us the bus took the 'old road', implying that there must be a 'new road'. This sounded much more desirable, so we insisted on the 'new road'. Seemingly trying to put us off she said “bus old, mostly local bus, old road bus is tourist bus”. Well quite frankly I don't know what's worse, locals and their mobiles phones or Poms trying to chat each other up. So “new road-local bus” it was. The following day our bus to Nha Trang arrived, of course, exceedingly late. It was a clunky old
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