Day 8

We booked our night bus to Nha Trang for that night so decided to spend the day as relaxed as possible. We headed to the beach and spent most of the day sun bathing and swimming in the sea. Generous amounts of factor 50 ensured that i didn't get a tan but luckily Matt is one of the whitest people known to man so i can still pretend i'm vaguely tanned when standing next to him.
We rented our room for the day so we had somewhere to leave our bags and could shower before heading onto the night bus which turned out to be a great choice when returning as hot and sandy as we did.
After dinner we headed out to catch the night bus which was one of the ones we had feared. Cramped and no toilet, 13 hour journey here we come :(. When we got on the front was packed with vietnamese but the top back row of five beds all together was free. Thinking we were the last stop me and matt took over the back 5 like the naughty kids at school and spread out thinking we'd made the best of a bad situation. Unfortunately there were 2 more stops and although the vietnames avoided us like the plague at the last stop we were joined on the back row by 3 eastern europeans. Meaning we had to cramped together like 5 people sharing a double bed. It also meant we had to move over to the side where the top of the lining of the coach was full of holes. This meant our feet were blasted by fully on air con while our heads were melted by what smelt liek really hot exhaust fumes.
That trip was quite possibly the slowest time has ever travelled.
We arrived at 6am and got a taxi straight to a hotel and checked in. As it was 6am they didn't have a clean room available but we were so shattered we decided to take it anyway. One bed had been slept in but the other hadn't. I shotguned the un-slept in bed but as i went for a quick shower matt blatently disregarded the rules of shotgun and removed my stuff from my bed and added his own. Too tired to argue i flipped the matteress on the other bed, got out my sleeping bag and went to bed.
We set the alarm for 1 so we didin't waste the whole day and got up and went to the beach. It was a beautiful, practically empty, 4km of white sand. We spent the rest of the day relaxing and swimming. I really wanted to do some water sports but found out that morning that somehow Matt had booked a $200 a night hotel for our last 2 nights and with money already short there was no way i could afford it.
In the evening we took advantage of even more great happy hour deals but keen not to make this turn into a drinking holiday we avoided the clubs and headed home early in order to get up for the beach tomorrow and prepare ourselves for the night bus tomorrow