Heading to the Highlands

From Nha Trang we headed inland to Boun Ma Thout which is a place not a lot of tourist choose to spend time. Its pretty much just a working Vietnamese town with no fancy beaches or banana pancakes to offer. I was lucky enough to get to stay with a local family I had no idea what anyone was saying but I have not eaten that much food in a long time. They stuff you just Italians and then give you more food! It was great I tried a lot of strange fake meat products.

We went "fishing" which in Vietnam apparently means hanging out around manicured pools stocked with fish, eating and drinking... excellent.

I caught none of these fish :(

Flower Shop

The purpose of our visit to Buon Ma Thuot was make our way to Yok Don National Park which was quite, green, and full of water buffalo. 

Yok Don was a nice change of pace, although the nearest village was a little touristy at first glance. If you take a walk down the road you soon pass the shops selling every useless item you could imagine and can take a look at long houses, old dudes smoking, and country life.

Saigon to the beach!

I landed in Saigon on April 15th after one of the shorter journeys I have been on in the last few months of my life. Saigon was kind of decompression and reintroduce my liver to its old pal beer time. Beer! Not Kingfisher beer!!! And also to Henry but my liver real doesn't give a shit about him, my liver is an asshole.

Hands down this is the prettiest motorcycle I have ever seen. It never ceases to amaze how much shit these lil dudes can carry on a bike!

On St. Patricks day we headed up to Nha Trang but not before having Guinness and many other beers.

Trains in Viet Nam v.

Trains in India...

Nha Trang is pretty tourist, I mean the beach is pretty perfect so I can see why. Personally I prefer being places where no one speaks my language and I get stared at like a strange rat monkey. Nha Trang had a really cool/weird oceanology museum with a room full of pickled animals and stuffed fishes everywhere... perfect.

Hello friend... he was real and real cute.

Nice things to have at the beach... import beer and fucking delicious vegan treats...

Less appealing things to see at the beach... Russian butts.

As our train arrived in Nha Trang you could see this Buddha's head poking over the buildings and I knew I really wanted to check it out up close. I am happy I did as it was one of the prettiest places I visited in Nha Trang.

I can not express how happy I am to be reunited with my one true love... coffee! From Nha Trang the journey continues inland. I am hoping that further from the sea/beach resorts I can find some legit Viet Nam culture!