Beautiful Beaches of Nha Trang, Vietnam

After our one day stint in Ho Ching Minh city, we boarded a train that night! Never being on a train before in my life, except for the one at Callaway Park, which is only 5 minutes long. This time I put my big boy pants on and aboard an 11 hour sleeping train to Nha Trang to finally see some beach! Not knowing what to expect I was somewhat hesitant towards it all but excited. Once boarding the train it was actually very cozy in the 4 bed cabin, we shared a room with a family who lives in Nha Trang who happened to be very very funny. So we had some in-cabin entertainment for our train ride before we all fell asleep. After arriving in Nha Trang at 5:30 am and not knowing where to go because we had no hotel booked, we went with the flow and found a average hotel for $10 a night. Luckily we could check in so early in the morning, then we went back to bed for a bit to try catch up on a bit of sleep. We woke up to a hot 32 degrees out with not a cloud in the sky. With the beach only being a 2 minutes walk from the hotel we were ecstatic so we got out there ASAP. That whole day we just enjoyed the sunshine and swam in the ocean. After the day drew to an end, we planned to go on a bit of a trip the next day to a more secluded beach. After Kendal emailed a local surfer named tippy, who happened to be from Arizona, he arranged a ride to the beach which was 30 minutes away. When we arrived, he had a pretty cool little shack going on. People were surfing, grilling their own seafood and the whole bit! Once again we swam in the ocean and Kendal got a lot of sun reading her book in the sand, to the point where she looked like a lobster. Her first big burn of the trip!
After meeting tippy, he just portrays how you should do something that you really enjoy and are really passionate about in your life. He's been running the shack for 7months ago and he's still putting more money into the place than he's getting out of it. Every time he talked with us though he was just so happy, and genuinely enthusiastic about the shack and being able to walk out his back door and grab his surfboard and go at anytime he pleases. Overall our two days in Nha Trang was just what we needed...some beach time!!!
-Jeremy