Cheever Fever: Nha Trang to Saigon

Nha Trang is a beautiful place. Full of big hotels, restaurants, and lots of Russians. We have seen many Russian people out and about. Sometimes too much Russian when we went to the beach.
Vietnam has been nice, but tough mentally because we recognise the Roman letters (Vietnamese is the only Asian language that is Romanized), but cannot speak or read it. Plus, we have tried not to spend money doing all the touristy stuff, so that has left us to do all the free stuff. And once you see one Pagoda, you basically have seen them all.

Long Son Pagoda in Nha Trang pictured below.

Giant seated Buddha at the pagoda

We are super excited to be in Saigon.
We have taken another night train to Saigon. Ga Nha Trang (Nha Trang Station in vietnamese) is full of sharks. Newspaper sharks that is. We witnessed three vietnamese men for four hours follow other vietnamese people to their seats and put magazines and newspapers in their face and basically beg them to buy the material. The begging was often without words as the paperboy would just stand there long after a noticable no was expressed. One paperboy we witnessed would loosen his grip on the paper and let it fall into the lap of the victims trying to obligate them to buy. It is nice to know that the vietnamese target the vietnamese also.
Our train ride was less than par. We opened our sleeper room door and it was full of garbage and the bedding was clearly used. To European girls near us tried to open their door and couldn't until someone finally unlocked it. They discovered that all the beds in their room were taken also. Then next to ours the Train Captain and a worker got into a huge arguement with another gentleman. The arguement spanned the first 20 mintues of our journey. We assumed the man was caught not in the right place also since it seemed as if everyone was occupying beds they shouldn't have been. Needless to say, we were just happy to finally put our feet up after sitting at the train station for over five hours.
In Saigon we have been planning on doing more of the touristy things. We have attended the War Remnants Museum already. That place was very interesting. As I was walking through and reading the many terrible stories and seeing the pictures, I was continually reminded of the great work my grandfather did while over here. Thanks Grandpa John for always living your testimony in all aspects of life, even that tough time. We hope to bike the Mekong Delta, and hopefully help Linh (Spike's Grandparents' friend) with a service project of some kind. We will keep you posted about that. For now, enjoy some more pictures.