Drew and I at a really good Italian restaurant on our first night. The name was Olivia and we ate here several times as they used real cheese and it had a great ambiance.
Us playing in the ocean on the main beach.
Sunset picture. The sunset was beautiful but it was weird since we are on the east coast and the sun sets over the city and not down behind the ocean.
Jim had some suits made at one of the local shops.
We had looked on tripadvisor for some restaurant recommendations and the top restaurant in town was an Indian place called Ganesha. The food did not disappoint, until Drew ordered his chicken spicy....
Playing pool with the local hustlers. We played for beers and they were much better but they scratched and had to get us beers, we paid for them anyways since they were under 50 cents a piece at the bar. They also play that if you scratch, the next person gets two shots.
The view from our condo that we woke up to every morning.
Obligatory panoramic view of the beach.
Emily and I doing handstands at the beach....well one of us succeeded.
The best thing we have done on this trip so far was renting out a boat. We rented out a boat for about 90 dollars, I am sure we got ripped off but it was less than 25 dollars a person for 10 hours in the ocean with just us. Almost all of these photos are from our boat trip starting with a view of the city.
Our boat was a small speed boat but our driver docked up to a larger boat and let us jump off. In fact most of the day was spent diving off docs and boats and floating fishing villages. One thing I want to mention on the blog so I don't forget but that we couldn't catch a photo of was that we saw a school of jumping fish. We couldn't figure out what it was but it was one of the coolest things i have ever seen.
I love this picture. Emily is jumping into the water off of a doc but it actually looks like she is jumping out of the water to me.
That is our driver Dot with the guys (Emily was definitely out numbered). He spoke very little English, and by English I mean he knew beer. I think we were his favorite clients ever because he let loose and had fun with us and I don't think he had ever done that before. He kept calling his boss to communicate with us when he wanted to say something.
The beautiful sky scattered with clouds.
The water was clear in parts so we were able to do some minor snorkeling and photo taking under water.
It was nice to have no itinerary so a lot of the time was spent just sitting out in the ocean and having drinks while listening to music. A lot of our pictures looked like this from the day.
We saw an old dock made of wood and tires and had to get a photo on it.
Also a boat that they use to shuttle people from boats to shore and is also used as a fishing boat.
Emily wanted to get in on the action.
We stopped by a fishing village and got out to check out the fish farms. This is a picture of the shore in the village.
These were not your typical fish farms. As you can see they had sharks in nets as well as lobsters, tropical fish, blow fish, box fish and almost any other sea creature you could think of.
Including these guys.
Here is a man fishing in one of those round boats we took photos in earlier in the day.
Playing cards.
Doing flips off of the farm. At first we did not know if our driver Dot could swim. But once we offered him beers and he realized we weren't pushy tourists he got in on the action and basically became part of the group.
Back flips.
Hand stands.
At one of the spots Dot dove down and caught sea urchins. He caught about 30 and asked if it was okay to keep getting more. I think he either sells them our eats them. He let us try them and well it was terrible. He did get poked by an urchin and nurse Emily had to remove the prick.
Things started to get interesting, as you can see this is the four guys in the back of the boat....
Because Emily became our driver.
We set down anchor to watch the sunset as the day was coming to an end and took a few more pictures.
The sunset was much prettier from the ocean than it was on the beach as you can see from this photo.
This is from the beach on our last day in Nha Trang.
Drew and I just before leaving for the last time.
Our last night in Nha Trang. We stayed in a non touristy part of town and no one spoke English. We decided to go down to the street below our house and sit with the locals. None of them spoke English but they were very nice and tried to help us.
In fact they made Drew some fresh spring rolls with fish and all the fix ins for free.
I am sad to see our time here on the beach come to an end. We will not see Emily and Jim for nearly 6 months which is the saddest part but I the trip with them could not have been better. I am making this post from Hanoi which is the capital of Vietnam and we are about to get our day started. I leave you with two last photos from Drew's iphone. One is of a lady named Fu who sold beers and water on the beach and she absolutely loved us. It is illegal for them to sell on the beach with out a license and cops come to the beach to confiscate their merchandise but she would just leave beers in a bag with ice and come back at the end of the day to collect her money. The other picture is of our last lunch right before we went to the airport. We went to a restaurant, no one spoke English and the menu was in Vietnamese. We told them One chicken with noodles and one beef dish with noodles. The beef dish came out correct. The chicken was plucked from a cage alive, and served to us below....we gave it to the locals to eat.
What!!! That chicken looks so scary!
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