Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Day 12 - Getting dirty in Nha Trang

Ah, lazy start to the day, sat on the beach with Erika watching the crabs crawl out of their little hole with the sand in their claws and flicking it out then popping back in to get some more sand and doing the same thing.

Whilst i was crab watching, Simon was attempting to go for the cheapest haircut in asia but failed miserably. They started cutting his hair with a cutthroat razor and then he told them no shave it with the electric razor so they did but didnt quite do his bald patch as they obviously think it needs to be longer. They then asked him if he wants it shampooing which he said yes to, they then proceeded to massage his forehead, put cream on his face, wipe it off, put hot and cold steam on it, and then finally shampooed his head. Therefore it wasnt his cheapest hair cut yet.

In the afternoon we went of for the day to go to the mud baths, before we got there though we went to a cham ruin and a sleeping buddha (massive white lying down buddha) at Long Son Pagoda. The mud bath however was the highlight of the day. All of us got in to one big bath and they then filled it in with mud and we took turns to pour it on each others heads, we then went into the hot mineral spas to relax afterwards. We then could go for a dip in the swimming pool, its not cool though it was boiling.

This is our last day in Nha Trang and really it would have been nice to have a couple more days here to relax and especially to go over the sea on to the other island by cable car.

In the evening everyone went back to the Indian/Italian place but we decided to go to a Turkish restaurant instead and at the end Simon had an apple tobacco waterpipe(bong), we shared this with Mary, Roll and Erika. This was very funny watching them trying to inhale it.

After dinner back on the night train again, to arrive in Saigon at 4.30 :-(

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