Nga Trang

Vietnams premier dive spot...

So who crashed their bike and can’t use it? Me! First day here we went for a swim as i figured salt water cures all. Maybe it was good for me but it stung like a million salted burning needles being poked under my skin while someone else poured vinegar all over them! I ended up ‘meditating’ on the beach trying to ignore the pain (o:

Next day was spent on a boat trip out to four neighbouring islands. It included a snorkel in a marine park (couldn’t see shite all and the coral was pretty wasted and a few lazy fish but not many). Instead the time was spent doing flips and jumps off the boat and happily enough, the sting had hugely reduced since yesterdays swimming episode.

Next was lunch on the boat – prawns, fruit, fried fish, rice, spring rolls, stirfry, tofu, sausage and on and on. We were very well fed! Then it was time for the floating bar.

Here they give you a life ring and you jump in the water and get fed wine by a floating bar man also in a modified inner tube. He kept grabbing people and pouring wine down their throats to a chorus of drunken westeners yelling “Jo!” which means cheers in Vietnamese and some other words i don’t remember. Then Dan (one of the americans with us) snuck up and tipped him out of the bar and became the barman giving out whole bottles of wine until everyone was happily tipsy.

Next was dancing on the boat deck to the sound of the boats own personal boy band – they were awesome! The drummer was playing on a plastic drum, an upside down dog bowl and a drum that was more duct tape than drum but he sounded superb.

Then it was on to an island to play sports (accompanied by a few bottles of wine we managed to weasel out of the guide) and then back to the boat and off to an aquirium. We never actually made it inside the aquirium either but spent the remainder of the day jumping off the boat again
All in all it was well worth it and we finished the day by all meeting at a beer bar before heading off to town.

Now, after chilling at Nga trang with Conrad, Dave and Lexi for 3 days; i have to leave. The problem is that they snore so loud at night! Like frigging jet-fighters taking off with a load of distressed elephants ridden by screaming babies inside!

No, but for real i have to leave as they are about to begin a few days of scuba diving and i need my motorbike grazes to heal and though the water is good for them, they need to be dry for a bit. And it is only 30US a day for 2 dives!!! Bugger!