Hoi An to Nha Trang

The train took 9 hours from Da Nang to Nha Trang which left at 11:41am and arrived at 8:41pm The station is not in the centre of Nha Trang so i would get a taxi when you arrive to take you to your hotel.

I don't think there is a main area of Nha Trang to stay in as there are many shops on every street. The hotel we stayed in was very popular and only a 10 minute walk to the beach.

Nha Trang is very busy and very popular and there are lots of lovely places to eat on every street. We just used Trip Adviser to see which restaurants were rated the best.

Not far from the hotel is a lovely stretch of white sandy beach that you can do a number of water sports on from kite surfing, jet ski's and banana boating. There are lots of bars long the beach which have seat actually on the beach so you don't have to go far.
There is also an outside swimming pool/lazy river which is open to the public, with sunbeds around the edges although you do have to pay for these.


You can get your hair cut and a shave on the street in Nha Trang as local people set up stalls with mirror attached to trees. You can also get your ears cleaned.

While in Nha Trang there are many different activities you can do but as we were only here for a few days we only did the Egg Mud Baths which cost about $12 (Today's exchange rate £9) These are egg shaped pods filled with natural hot mud you bath in for 30 minutes and there are hydro pools and swimming pools to relax in. Although this sounds a nice novel thing to do I wouldn't do it again, as it is not worth the money and was a small complex. Within our ticket we could eat in the restaurant which we were the only people in and the food wasn't that great.














We were here for valentines day so went out for a lovely sushi meal which again we found on trip adviser and went to the cinema which is very small but quiet and cheap. This is about a 20 minute walk from the beach in the direction of the train station.

We booked a night bus from Nha Trang which picked us up from our hotel to Ho Chi Minh City which took 10 hours and cost around $24 (Today's exchange £17 each) there are two that leave a day either 8am or 8pm. We took the 8pm bus. The bus will arrive at Ho Chi Minh City but the bus station is not in town so you will have to get a local bus into town. Ask a local for directions and they will tell you what bus to use they are very helpful. Once we arrived in the city we went straight into a travel agents and booked the next bus to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

NOTE: You can not book a bus in Nha Trang all the way to Cambodia you will have to book them separately as we did above.

Hotel we stayed in was booked through booking.com:
The Summer Hotel, $103 (Us dollars). (Todays exchange rate £72) for 4 nights. This included a buffet breakfast which was very nice, but a lot of the rooms don't have window and is so very dark and smells musky. We were a floor above the kitchen and you can hear everything and they start early in the morning so be warned. There is a roof top pool but its small and has about 8 sunbed so in high season you will struggle to get a bed. The hotel was ok but there were points that let it down. Not a hotel to stay in for long periods of time.