Day 18 - Day delayed due to rain!

So our first day in Nha Trang kinda washed out. We got breakfast at a restaurant right next to the hotel, which was a lot of orders of banh mi op-la and an order of banh mi steak covered in good cream sauce. Right as we started finishing up though, the rain came. Instead of the tour that we planned on attending, we tried to explore as much of Nha Trang as we could that was indoors, which was just the mall. I actually found a pair of slippers that fit me though! I think my feet measure 45 something over here.

We headed over to Cho Dam afterward, where I tried my hand at negotiating and bought some handmade bookmarks at 9k each that were originally priced at 15k each. Jess thinks that I was probably ripped off anyway, but you know what? I got it down 6k. BOO-YAH! I'm guessing that I can get the price %50 off for my next purchase.

We headed back to the hotel to get out of the rain for a bit, and then got a late lunch. Lunch was com nieu, which is pot-made rice. We ate that along with rau muong, more soup, fish in tomato sauce, fish-sauce chicken wings, squid, and shaky beef.

After lunch, we headed to the Cham Temple, which was actually very cool! Huge chunk of the temple had been destroyed by the government during the war, and they are now trying to rebuild it. Unfortunately, the government killed all of the Cham people who knew how to create the structures, so they tried to figure out how to do it on their own. Let's say their parts of the temple don't really look authentic.

As we were exploring the temple, a group of Cham dancers got together and performed traditional dances. I was REALLY impressed with their second dance, which was where they danced with pots on their heads. The pots stayed on their head during the whole performance WHILE they were doing little jumps and spins.

In the showroom, there were pictures of the old temple compared to the reconstruction that was happening now, so we can see what's being done right now. Apparently the Cham dedicated reproductive organs to different parts of the temple. When we left the showroom, I went around the temple to take more pictures. At one point, I think I may have straddled one of these dedicated reproductive organs to get a good angle for one of my pictures.

The rain picked up again, so we couldn't stay long. We ended up back at the hotel to hope for the rain to go away. Didn't happen, so our day was kinda half washed.

Jess says that she wants us to wake her up at 5am to really enjoy the beach. She insists that we drag her out of bed, so her auntie and I will see what happens tomorrow morning.

PAYCE.

We headed back