The night bus arrived in about 2.5 hours late but it
actually made things better for us to not arrive at 6am we had a hotel transfer
which we all piled into only to be taken back to the bus station to pick more
people up and eventually get to our hostel. We couldn’t check in until about
11am so I went out to find some food with one of the guys from the bus.
We found a little café in the ancient city and after eating
took a walk around for a few hours we didn’t have the ancient city ticket so we
couldn’t go inside everywhere but popped our heads through the door and carried
on. Around 10.30am we started back to the hostel where we had to hang around
for about an hour before we could check in and the staff were super rude about
it.
Eventually we could get into the room I dumped my bag and
got changed and then went with a couple of other people to rent bikes to cycle
the 4km to the beach. The ride was easy it’s a straight flat road so didn’t
take much time but when we arrived there seemed to be a bit of a scam to pay to
park we did it as it was cheap and that seemed the safest way to ensure our
bike didn’t ride away.
We arrived about midday and spent most of the day swimming
and sunbathing I took a book from the hostel which kept me occupied and I
enjoyed getting a bit more bronzed. Around 4.30pm we set off back to the hostel
where I had a shower in a dingy bathroom with a grey towel (this hostel is the
worst in Vietnam!!!) and then chilled out a while before dinner.
We went to an India restaurant for dinner which was amazing
and the portions were huge and delicious which was just what I needed. After we
ate we walked around the ancient city for a while before heading back to the
hostel feeling pretty exhausted.
Tuesday 11th August 2015
This morning I woke up and wanted to sleep more but it was
one of those days were sleep eluded me and so I got up and had breakfast. It
was an all you can eat buffet and I ate all I could eat. After breakfast I
booked my next bus and then rented a bike to go to the beach.
We went to Cua Dai Beach which was about 7km away from town
and was much smaller than the other one it was a pretty beach but the coastline
was clearly suffering from erosion and there was sandbags along long stretches
of sand.
We set up a little place on the beach under some trees and
spent an enjoyable few hours reading in the sunshine. After a bit a couple of
girls I met in Dalat arrived and we sat and talked to them for quite some time
before they had to head off and onwards to their next destination.
We stayed sitting on the beach for quite some time and
headed back into town around 4pm. After a quick stop at the hostel we went to
the ancient town to a café we had been told about at breakfast. It was called reach
out café and is run by deaf and speech impaired locals. It’s a silent café and
all ordering etc. is done by hand gestures, writing things down and little
wooden blocks with words on.
It was a really tranquil place to sit and drink several pots
of tea and eat plates of cookies for an hour or so. Afterwards I walked back to
the hostel via the post office to post some postcards and then back to the
hostel where I had a shower and chilled out before dinner.
This morning at breakfast I had overheard a girl talking
about a vegetarian restaurant and had asked her where it was. It was an amazing
little place and I had a huge bowl of pumpkin it was so exciting! All the food
was Vietnamese but without the stress of making sure it didn’t contain fish so
was an absolute win after eating we just headed back to the hostel and I read
until late.
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