Bahn Mi for breakfast! Oh Yea!
Okay! I’m back! A few days and many miles off from the blog and also back from a case of the crud for a couple of days. Whether from cold like symptoms or too much exhaust it has caught a few of us and it makes the journey that much tougher. But I’m back!
Another 200 + Miles along the coast and lots of warm weather, the last two days in the upper 80’s.
Tuy Hoa is a so so town - Carol and I had been there three years ago and the surrounding area is beautiful but not a lot happening for gringos. Then comes Nha Trang, Vietnam’s most famous beach town. Wow! It is tourist central and is being built up at a frantic pace. The unexpected reality is that it is overwhelmingly Russian tourists. In terms of caucasians it has to be 90to 95% . Signs and menues are in Russian and tours and hotels are all geared for them. Of course there are Chinese tourists and a few others but it felt like little Moscow.
http://m.english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/travel/187067/russian-tourists-to-vietnam-skyrockets.html#
The beach scene is amazing with easy wave action and long stretches of sand and beautiful views and the seafood choices are something else along with exotic foods to boot.
I think most of us prefer the more low keyed Vietnamese beach scenes like where we are now, and after Nha Trang it’s back to us being the only non-Vietnamese people in town!
Tomorrow is going to be different as 4 of our group have decided to ride inland to Dalmatia which is a beautiful city about 300 km north of Saigon. It’s a tough 4900’ climb but Enrique, Sam Robert, and Dick will enjoy it. The rest of us are going to continue down the coast and we will all meet up again in Saigon on the 25th.
So here are a few pics from the last days. We are three weeks in and a week to go so there’s that mix of feelings one gets when you are at this point in a journey.
See you all soon! Don
The people are the best part!
Food scene in Nah Trang
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Nha Trang, don't the Russians own it?!! Didn't much care for that town. And quite a few Rooski's were ass-dips! That snake... pretty durn chewy, eh? The exhaust is a killer and so are the carcinogens kicked up in the dust, remnants of war chemicals I am told by the local owner of our popular Pho restaurant... wear a mask, maybe?
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