🇻🇳 Vietnam: Nha Trang Travel and Backpacking. Dec 2019.

Disclaimer

The information in this blog is accurate as of November 2019.

CONTENTS

• 🤔 – What to Expect
• 🌅 – Activities
• 🍛 – Food
• 🚇 – Transport
• 🛌 – Accomodation

🤔 What to Expect

• Ferocious waves in the ‘winter’ season.
• Nice beach.
• Russian Bali.
• A few activities but don’t expect a week long adventure.
• A place best used for relaxing.

🌅 Activities

Travelling can take it out of you… So we can’t say we did much in Nha Trang as we just wanted a little rest and recouperation. Plus as it’s the winter months it’s not exactly the warmest at this time of year. Well warmer than England but in my opinion not bikini weather either.

• Pretty obvious but a day at the beach soaking up the sun.
• Local Tours of Nha Trang.

• Vinpearl land – Vinpearl cable car and amusement park.
• Scuba diving and snorkeling.
• There’s never a place without a market..

• Ponagar Tower (another temple 🙄)
• Long Son Pagoda
• Walk along the promenade and watch the waves crash in – be careful not to get wet!

• Museum of Oceanography
• See the pink Tower of Incence.

🍛 Food

Nom Nom Restaurant

• Tasty good for a moderate price.
• 90,000 VND (£3) for Chicken Green Thai Curry with rice. 80,000 VND (£2.80) for a 28cm Pizza with various toppings.
• We also had a sharing platter which we felt was over priced for the amount of food you received. Medium 350,000 VND (£11.50) Large 500,000 VND (£16.50).
• Tucked away down a side street.
• Very popular with local and foreign tourists throughout the day and evening.

Liberty Central

• 99,000 VND excl. 10% VAT for breakfast, choices include American, French and Vietnamese with a drink. (£3.35)
• Remember it may say American but it’s Vietnam’s version of American.
• Food was okay, nothing exciting.

City Pizza – Little Italy

• Great portions for a great price.
• Food was tasty – Pizza was scrummy at 99,000 VND (£3.35).
• Ordered local rum and coke which turned out to be whiskey, plus ants. Not sure if they were in the straws tbh.
• Family run restaurant.

🚇 Transport

• Public buses.
• Hire a motorcycle.
• Local bus – we bought through our accomodation. Nha Trang to Da Lat for 120,000 VND per person. A little bumpy and not as comfortable as tourist buses.

🛌 Accommodation

Papaya Homestay

• 317,000 VND (£10.21) per night king size bed with private bathroom.
• Towels and toiletries were provided but an added bonus was the free to use washing machine on the rooftop floor.
• Good location and clean.
• Quiet besides a woman throwing a brick at next door on our first night. I think they must have fallen out 😬