Black Eyed Peas

Wednesday 17th November

Its been a few days since the last update, Nha Trang has been fantastic, well except for one minor little issue that is.

We spent the day at Vinpearl island which consists of a theme park, water park and a splattering of shops and restauants. We were having a whale of a time at the waterpark, there were loads of slides, wave machines and the weather was fantastic.

However there was one slide in particular that Tyler had been dying to go on, it was the "Family Slide" a steep slope where you jumped into a 6 seater dinghy and shot down the slide at speed.

We had all been on it a few times when someone suggested going down in a two seater instead. All went well a few times but then disaster struck, Pauline and Tyler came down so fast that their rubber tube flipped and both smacked into each other causing a collossal bang and a scene worth of any hidden camera show.

The end result was that Tyler ended up with a giant smack to the back of his head, Pauline ended up with a very swollen face and the startings of a black eye that will be fully formed in a few days.

Thus ended our adventure to the water park and I spent the rest of the day accompanying Shrek and Susan Boyle around the theme park , looking like a carer for the deformation day release clinic.

Anyway, the remainer of our time there went smoothly and we fell in love with the place but like everywhere else we had to pack up our stuff again and head away to Dalat.

Its amazing that we made it as we have just had one of the most hair raising rides of our lives! It seems that in order to create a truly authentic vietmanese bus journey you first take one or two highly irrational and potentially unqualified drivers, add a 30 year old rusty coach that has dubious safety features including broken seat belts and windows.

Then from there you make them drive 5 hours on steep mountain passes covered in pot holes and landslides as fast as they can possibly make the beaten up vehicle go and if thats still a bit tame just to spice it up a little more add torrential rain.

I lost count of the times we almost careered off the road and I have absolutely no idea how the suspension lasted longer than a few minutes but somehow we made it through. Tyler dealt with it in his own nonchalant way by sleeping through the entire journey and waking up completely unphased moaning how hungry he was.