NHA TRANG

First a sea day, nice after all the hectic coach tours. You don't actually dock at Nha Trang, I think the docking area was deemed unsafe for tendering and the ships are now docked at Cam Ranh. This is a military naval base complete with armed guards, barbed wire, the full nine yards. There is no just wandering off the ship. 

Took a ships tour on cyclocabs - these are like the pedal rickshaws you see around London. You can flag them down just like a taxi.

Very busy, difficult to decern the rules of the road, lots of motorbikes and very noisy.

They don't have Uber, their equivalent is Grab. They have Grab bikes as well as cars. You just use the app, the bike turns up and gives you a helmet. I don't know if they take 2 passengers on a bike, you do see bikes with three people riding.

There was a communist festival of some sort going on. They lit a fire in our honour.

We finished our tour at a craft centre for a Vietnamese buffet lunch. This is a large outdoor centre where artists & crafts people come together to work and sell their products. There were painters, sculptors, basket weavers, jewellers and many other crafts people. All of the work was excellent. They had tables, solid wood probably 25ft x 10ft and 9 inches thick - beautiful.

Interesting little game - the sitting folk bang their poles together to music, the dancers try to avoid getting their ankles trapped, count the bruises at the end to see who's won, 10 point bonus for a fracture.

All the cane furniture was made by them, wine as well.