After a comfy sleep we went to buffet breakfast at 8.30am and took the free cycles along 5km to the beach and were in the sea by 9.30am. Having refused to pay to park the bikes in a cycle park we left them on the beach under a tree and under our watchful eye. As we had no bike lock Kris gathered pieces of twine from the beach and tied the tyres together, that should do the trick! After an hour or so we were both bored, boiling and burnt and cycled back to the hotel to shower and check out by noon. 
We utilised the internet for a few hours and while booking the airport taxi for later I got chatting to a lovely local lady in the travel agents who offered to drive me around on her motorbike for free to see the local sights. So I hopped on and we went to a different beach which had round fishing boats spread along it, we went via lush green rice paddies and some very colourful vegetable patches.
On my return to Kris we walked into town for lunch. We had rice and spring rolls in a place recommended by the lonely planet and it was lovely followed by ice cream and mossie bites for dessert! Both feeling burnt we laid by the pool in the shade relaxing until our 6pm taxi ride to the airport in Danang. We arrived at the airport nice and early and had to wait around to board our flight with Jetstar at 9pm. Our boarding time of 8.30pm came and went and there was no call for us and no information anywhere and no staff to ask. We found some other people looking equally as lost with a similar ticket and sat next to them.
Finally we boarded the very cramped plane and watched a film on the ipod to take our minds off the flight. It was over very quickly and an hour later we had arrived in Saigon. We met two other couples travelling and the six of us jumped in a taxi to the backpacker district of town. Being 11.30pm and having nowhere booked we walked in the first hotel and luckily found a room with air con and cold shower… perfect.
We utilised the internet for a few hours and while booking the airport taxi for later I got chatting to a lovely local lady in the travel agents who offered to drive me around on her motorbike for free to see the local sights. So I hopped on and we went to a different beach which had round fishing boats spread along it, we went via lush green rice paddies and some very colourful vegetable patches.
On my return to Kris we walked into town for lunch. We had rice and spring rolls in a place recommended by the lonely planet and it was lovely followed by ice cream and mossie bites for dessert! Both feeling burnt we laid by the pool in the shade relaxing until our 6pm taxi ride to the airport in Danang. We arrived at the airport nice and early and had to wait around to board our flight with Jetstar at 9pm. Our boarding time of 8.30pm came and went and there was no call for us and no information anywhere and no staff to ask. We found some other people looking equally as lost with a similar ticket and sat next to them.
Finally we boarded the very cramped plane and watched a film on the ipod to take our minds off the flight. It was over very quickly and an hour later we had arrived in Saigon. We met two other couples travelling and the six of us jumped in a taxi to the backpacker district of town. Being 11.30pm and having nowhere booked we walked in the first hotel and luckily found a room with air con and cold shower… perfect.
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