Last night we met up with some of the Australians we met on the boat. The bar was named “Why Not” and served cocktail “buckets” which had all sorts of liquor and enough pineapple juice to make it pretty good. The Australians were a lot of fun and have an awesome song they sing when someone takes a shot. It definitely needs to come back to America. Today started late on account of the “buckets”. After a lunch of pho (it’s hard to find anything else) we headed to the Po Nagar Cham towers. They are a collection of brick structures built on a seaside hill in the 700s dedicated to a Buddhist god. They were pretty impressive and had great views of the ocean. Most of the day was spent on a minibus traveling to Quy Nhon, another coastal town to the north. The bus ride was actually much more exciting than you might think. Although this was not a good thing, as the excitement came from the absolute chaos that is a Vietnamese highway. The concept of lanes hasn’t seemed to catch on in Vietnam, so looking out the front of the bus was fairly terrifying. It seemed like we spent half the ride looking into oncoming traffic; only to dart out of the way at the last second. But we arrived here safely and got a nice hotel room for $12. It is unbelievable how large of a room one can get here for such a low price. It even has a balcony. We had dinner at Barbara’s Kiwi Café,
which had very good and inexpensive Western food. We were even able to meet Barbara, the owner, an expat from New Zealand. She was able to give us some helpful travel tips as well. On our way back we were lucky enough to walk by an open air butcher shop and see them slaughtering pigs. Apparently, the Vietnamese version of OSHA or the FDA isn’t as strict as they are back home.
Last night we met up with some of the Australians we met on the boat. The bar was named “Why Not” and served cocktail “buckets” which had all sorts of liquor and enough pineapple juice to make it pretty good. The Australians were a lot of fun and have an awesome song they sing when someone takes a shot. It definitely needs to come back to America. Today started late on account of the “buckets”. After a lunch of pho (it’s hard to find anything else) we headed to the Po Nagar Cham towers. They are a collection of brick structures built on a seaside hill in the 700s dedicated to a Buddhist god. They were pretty impressive and had great views of the ocean. Most of the day was spent on a minibus traveling to Quy Nhon, another coastal town to the north. The bus ride was actually much more exciting than you might think. Although this was not a good thing, as the excitement came from the absolute chaos that is a Vietnamese highway. The concept of lanes hasn’t seemed to catch on in Vietnam, so looking out the front of the bus was fairly terrifying. It seemed like we spent half the ride looking into oncoming traffic; only to dart out of the way at the last second. But we arrived here safely and got a nice hotel room for $12. It is unbelievable how large of a room one can get here for such a low price. It even has a balcony. We had dinner at Barbara’s Kiwi Café, 
which had very good and inexpensive Western food. We were even able to meet Barbara, the owner, an expat from New Zealand. She was able to give us some helpful travel tips as well. On our way back we were lucky enough to walk by an open air butcher shop and see them slaughtering pigs. Apparently, the Vietnamese version of OSHA or the FDA isn’t as strict as they are back home.
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