Claire & Melanie's Global Trek

After our short night's sleep at the "Happy" Inn hotel, we promptly went looking for another hostel!! But with bag on back walking around the streets, we were a prime target for the touts.. "You come here", "you come to our nice hotel"... I gotta say it gets pretty damn annoying after a while!!!! We settled on the Sunview hotel, which was actually fab and very central to all the main bars and restaurants. We spent the rest of the day on the beach. Again, the beach was full of merchants selling bracelets, thai food, postcards... Check out the pic - he is carrying a boiling pot over a bed of coals!! Wonder what tasty treats are in there ....! :-)

It's dubbed as Vietnam's beach resort, but I have to say Hoi An was a much nicer beach. We chilled out in the hotel afterward, watched a bit of TV and nearly fell over laughing at the Vietnamese version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire!!

That night we headed to the Sailing Club, a bar right on the beach, with deck chairs on the sand if you fancy having your margarita's on the beach!! Happy hour consisted of half price vodka buckets where the bar man apologised to me if it was too strong... ehh..... I'll survive!!! ;-D Bumped into the Canadian girls we met briefly in Hoi An, Lyndsey and Amy. Iceland guys Runar and Kristinn joined us then and a drink or two later, we headed to a nightclub. Home late, pretty good night!

The next day was a late starter!! Bumped into the Spanish guys that we met on Junk in Halong Bay! Everyone seems to be doing the same route, just keep seeing the same faces pop up in different places along our trip!! We headed down to another place recommended to us called La Louisane, with it's own pool, bar and restaurant right on the beach. Chilled out there for a while and later that evening back to the Sailing Club.

Day 19 - Late again down to the beach, this time not attributed to alcohol or lack of sleep, we were just lazy buggers!!! Caught a few rays, but not much, we are still a couple of whiteys compared to other beach goers so really annoyed when it clouded over!!! :-( Out later again to..... somewhere different I hear you ask?! .... eh no, Sailing Club again! - It's actually a cool spot! Met up with Canadians and Iceland guys again and had a few, nothing too mad as we had booked an early morning flight to Ho Chi Minh - up at 05:30 for taxi pickup!! Exchanged email addresses and we are all to meet up again in the Full Moon Party!! Found out the Canadian girls were the same flight as us the next day..