Nha Trang and Hoi An - sweet as!

Me looking glam on the sleeper bus (in the daytime) from Dalat to Nha Trang

Wow! Totally impressed by both places - especially (super touristy) Hoi An.  Glad I stopped in at Nha Trang, I'd heard it wasn't worth a stopover, but I really liked it.  Nice restaurants, although I paid $35 for a lobster with "fries and vegetables" (and waited over 1/2 hour for it although I was the only one in the restaurant) that was pretty average. However the highlight of Nha Trang was going to the ab fab Thap Ba mud springs. For $10 I was picked up and dropped back to my hotel in a nice van and went through a mud bath, hot mineral showers, superjet mineral spray thing, waterfall thing, and hot pool/ cool pool experience - it was really awesome.

Thap Ba Hot Mud Springs at Nha Trang - brilliant!!

The $35 dollar lobster

view to Nha Trang beach from my hotel rooftop breakfast/pool area

Okay so only one night there, then got picked up next day by super crazy bus driver of utterly shit company (the chick in Saigon ripped me off and put me on a different (the worst company ever) bus company than what I asked for - the first bus was PT but after that the shit brothers..I mean TM Brothers... they are utterly horrendous ... avoid at all costs. So the overnight bus trip to Hoi An had around 40 stops - collecting their friends, parcels, stopping for the shit driver to drink tea etc - I lasted the whole trip (13 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!) without barfing, but did so on arriving at my hotel. There are more shit details, but let's leave it at that, because Hoi An is amazingly beautiful, as is my hotel room. 

utter luxury for $35 per night!

My Jacuzzi!!!!!! Oh Yeah!

Okay so have had 4 lovely nights in Hoi An, wandering around, eating food, and soaking up the atmosphere. So touristy and westernized but I love it! Here are some more pics. I also did a cooking course today, which was utterly marvellous...

typical Hoi An streetscape - so pretty but filled with westerners!!

bikin' around Hoi An

Check the silk duds!

Me at Morning Glory cooking school - all for $25 - what a bargain!

So that's all the excitement for now... except determined to NOT have to catch the shit -maniac brothers bus - so eventually got the receptionists here (could they learn just a little english???) to tell me how to book Sinh Tourist bus instead - the girls at Sinh Cafe were angels honestly - so I can burn the shit ticket - I paid $8 for the Sinh bus (the best - don't ever bother going by any other carrier as Lonely Planet, Travelfish and TripAdvisor all say) and they wrote on my ticket in Vietnamese to drop me off near the Hue airport - rather than having to get a cab from downtown Hue!! (customer service is not really a specialty of the Vietnamese as far as I can gather - so extremely comforting to get some!)

So taxiing to Sinh Tourist stop at 7am and then flight from Hue to arrive in Hanoi for airport pick up by the "Charming Hotel" (could I be that lucky??)..  Must go eat and have a jacuzzi now...seee