SE ASIA Pt. 4 - Vietnam (Nha Trang)

Day 5 of our journey consisted of jumping on the 10:00 am bus from Da Lat central, and making our descent towards the south central coast of Vietnam. We arrived at our destination (Nha Trang) in about 4 hours. You should expect to pay around 90 000 VND (about 6.50 AUD) for a ticket from Da Lat. Stopped off for some gas about 3 hours into the trip at this little village station. The setting was dope, so got the 60 out for a snap.

Anyways.. Nha Trang is the capital of the Khánh Hòa province, lying adjacent to the South China Sea. People come here for one thing, the beaches. They're good, but we have a lot better back home, serious.
Another tip, after wandering around, looking for accom, we found a 1 month old Hotel which was pretty close to the beach. It was about 14 USD per night for a twin share room (7 USD p/p can't go wrong) and it was luxurious as hell (best spot I stayed in, during the 5 weeks of back packing). The place is called the Saint Paul Hotel and you wont find it in your Lonely Planet guide. I assure you that it's better than any of the places listed though (get that right).

Dumped our bags, and headed straight for the beach. Chilled there for a minute, sipped on some lemon/honey ice tea (I really miss that shit) and took in the Nha Trang sea breeze.
Next day a "tattooed brother" spotted me and we started conversing about my ink. I had no problems with that. Did that, then convinced this dude to take us to a couple of spots we wanted to check out, but which were a mission to get to by foot.

Yeh I know, photos are slightly out of focus, and had issues with lighting. My head wasn't in it.

So I was back riding bitch on another motorbike... but it meant I could snap away at Nha Trang with ease, so I dealt with the mad shame.
I wanted to check out the Cham Towers (Tháp Bà Pô Nagar) and it just so happened there was a festival going on. Spotted a play, so I sat in with the locals for a minute, sussing it out.
Met some cool little local kids running around the temple hustling tourists out of 1 USD notes. Was entertaining to watch. These kids were slick, and some of them were mad little Bboys. A couple of the shots were out of focus, my apologies.. was on manual focus, and sweat was dripping off my head onto the viewfinder. I was clearly having focussing issuesin Nha Trang..
The 'leader' of the little gang had some ink. So as per usual, I got some snaps. Ink at that age, and a hand piece? Kid was fly. I dug the hand piece.
Spotted that my 'tattoed brother' had a hand piece too. A emerald green scorpion.
Before leaving on my trip, I heard that Nha Trang was home to a GIANT seated white Buddha, so I NEEDED to see it for myself.
Got some snaps and that was that. Next stop was Hoi An. Peace out Nha Trang.