The Beach

Over the past few days we have basically done nothing. On Saturday we took a bus back to Ho Chi  Minh City then we stayed there for a night.  The next day we took a bus to the beach and we  are staying here for the remainder of our time in Vietnam. The thing about the town we are staying is all of the taxis are trying to rip us off. The town is behind a mountain and the hotels along the beach are on the each side of the mountain. Each time we try and get a taxi back to our hotel we have to around the mountain when you can just cut through the town so it is a longer ride and the cabby gets a bigger fare. We have taken a total of 4 taxis in our time here and every time they have  gone around the mountain , so then one of us has to tell the driver to turn around and go the fast way to our hotel.

In Vietnam when you go to the beach it is all about the sea food people from the city flock to the coast just to sit on the beach and eat sea food. When we were at the beach yesterday we had a great B.B.Q.ed octopus and  it was delicious. The person next to us was having some sea food dish, but they had jeans and a hoodie on  and they there shivering. To the Vietnamese this is freezing. The average temperature here is 30c or over and we see everyone bundled up and shivering everywhere. Personally i think they're crazy.