If that seems fast-it's because it is! We actually are catching a sleeper bus to Hoi An in just a few minutes, after only 13 hours in Nha Trang. We took a boat tour today, and actually had an amazing time-but its clear that Nha Trang is simply a (mostly Aussy and British) backpacker hangout, which makes for very little cultural experience and mostly just cheap (ish) beer consumed in large quantities. It would have been fun for New Year's, since it is very difficult to travel on holidays (and the Vietnamese are very into New Year's, both standard and lunar) it would have meant three straight days here, and there simply wasn't enough to hold our attention for that long.
On the positive, we stayed with a very sweet innkeeper here, who loved the fact that we were here on our honeymoon-she commented about it every time she saw us! Also, our boat tour guide was an awesome older man who is now a dive master and does tours for a living, and took a liking to me as I have a beard. I thought being bearded here might be a cultural mistake, as virtually no Vietnamese have beards or facial hair at all, but its actually been a great icebreaker. They will often make comments or playful jokes about it-our bus driver to the
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