NHA TRANG

A nice small city on the beach...or the beach in the city...You can step right down from the street to the beach. From most hotels it's only a few minutes walk.
The beach is not crowded at all and every time we've been there we have several hundred meters of beach for ourselves. Today it was Sunday and only some local people sitting on the beach fishing, some tourist lay sunbathing on hired chaires and the tourists from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh preferred the shade under the Palm Huts.
It's a beach without the normal tourist things like Water Scooters and all kind of thing like that...just one place to buy some drink and small food otherwise nothing...not even anybody looking after or keeping watch like on other beaches I've been.
The waves here are spectacular and flows 10-15 meters in over the beach. They are nearly 1 meter when they hit the beach and the power in a wave is tremendous...it almost knocks you over. It's nice to play in the waves and beeing pushed up on the beach or only standing there and getting your feei washed and sometimes your whole body.
When the sun goes down the locals are coming to the beach. They are walking along or sitting there under the Coconut trees and watching and listening to the waves that hits the shore. It's strange, you'll never get tired of watching the waves or the sound, it's something magic.
It's a great place if you are tired of crowded and "overtouristified" places. Maybe the restaurants in this town aren't so great and the nightlife and things like that, but it's real and a lot of things to do. You can take boat trips to islands, trips up the river and even trekking through the jungle and up to mountains.
Tomorrow we are going to Monkey Island.