August 14, 2007

VIETNAM

More of the Same: Bus Travel

I arrived in the coastal city of Nha Trang at 7am this morning, but I only hung around long enough to buy water and snacks for the next leg of the ride: a 14 hour hurl to Saigon in Southern Vietnam. With a beautiful stretch of beach and a shaded park that stretched the length of the coastline, the city of Nha Trang actually looked like it was worth staying around for. Unfortunately, I was still focused on one thing: reaching Saigon and starting anew.

10:30pm: I reached Saigon and with the help of a few locals I checked into a room at the home of a Vietnamese family for a dirt-cheap price. There were no amenities and there were ants crawling across the bed, but  I was glad to finally be done with laborious traveling - 50 hours on various buses in less than four days.