Nha Trang

Yesterday we spent the morning waiting for the bus which was supposed to be at 1, after it finally turned up at just after 3 we were surprised by the fact it was a sleeper bus. Instead of seats there were rows of beds. These beds had a small compartment st the bottom designed for size 5 feet and did not fit mine. I also haven't had to say I'm too tall for things very often in England but I was definitely too tall for the bus. I couldn't sit up and I had to lie with my legs bent for 5 long hours. Behind me was a foreign family and the little girl sang nursery rhymes in her language for the majority of the journey.
When we arrived in Nha Trang we realised we had underestimated the size of the city and found out our hotel was around 3km out of the centre. We got a taxi to it and took an early evening.
Today waking up we found our hotel is on a dirt track instead of a road, but only 100m from the beach. We walked along the path for a while before getting a taxi into the centre of town and having lunch in a café on the beach. There was a beggar there who was affected by agent orange and was born with no arms or legs. We tried to book our train tickets but the wait was around an hour so we're heading back tomorrow morning.
This evening we visited Po Nagar Cham towers, these are ancient Buddhist temples on a hill at the edge of the city. They started to be built in the 7th century and have been refurbished to allow people to worship in them again. As we were there the sun was setting and the views were fantastic, in the distance we could see the 30m tall white Buddha on another hill in the city.

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