There and back again: A travellers tale: Day 22 Russian Invasion

26/03/13
Again breakfast today was the same, for me anyway, it consisted of muesli, yoghurt, fresh fruit and more fresh fruit, whilst the others had the healthier option of a full english. We then took to the beach and walked along the seafront. We continued for a good mile until we found a harbour pier which we jumped and dived off, into the bath temperature sea water. For the next couple of hundred metres there was just docks so we decided to head back to the road, we went through a set of gates, which on the front had 'Military Docks' written on. The harbour wall we dived off was military property. Another mile or so on we reached our goal, the foot of Vinpearl cable car, a mile long job stretching across the sea to an island. Vinpearl is a huge water/ themepark. It cost just $20 for the whole day 9am to 9pm, we only rocked up at 12.30 but managed to stay for 7 hours. We filled the time by going on copious different types of slides, there were also loads of non-water rides, including our favourite, the Alpine Coaster (a metal toboggan run). There were hundreds of Russians, literally 90% of the customers were Russian, it is the same throughout the whole of Nha Trang, it has many Russian restaurants, bars, shops and even dive centres. There were some indoor games at Vinpearl, including dodgem cars, we teamed up as a trio and destroyed the Russians, occasionally we got as good as we gave, we thoroughly enjoyed being 10 years old again. One thing I didn't enjoy was a small show, which monkeys performed, including riding bikes. We walked back to save money and stopped off and bought 'toasties', they were in fact toasted savoury pancakes, seriously good, especially when they cost just 7p. We later stopped at another street vendor for noodle soup, again extremely good for the money. We went out for a drink but got back at a reasonable time because we're diving again tomorrow.