We dragged out of bed at 4 AM today and got a taxi to Da Nang, where we caught a Vietnam Airlines prop plane flight to Nha Trang. It was a good flight and Max and I had a great view of the mountainous jungles of the Central Highlands on our side of the plane. Its such a beautiful place - its hard to imagine the brutal combat that was going on there when I was in grade school.
My friend from his days in Juneau, Carlos Massad, met us at the airport with two vehicles to bring us the twenty miles back to his house. We dropped off our bags and headed out for a massive breakfast and coffee at a great little cafe run by an ex-pat Australian who is a friend of Carlos'.
(Jeannie taking over for Tim on the post) After breakfast we walked to the beach and spent a few hours enjoying the warm water and sand. We went to a "private beach" where we rented chairs. There was also a beautiful pool to swim in to rinse off from the ocean.
We went out for a huge seafood dinner with Carlos, who ordered for all of us in vietnamese. We had asparagus and crab soup, seafood fried rice, morning glory greens (kind of like spinach), giant prawns (4 or 5 inches long) that we dipped in lime juice and pepper, and a grilled whole fish that we ate in chunks wrapped in rice paper with lettuce, mint, & cucumber.
This morning Tim and Keith got up early to go with Carlos so his fish farm site. He is the general manager for the operation raising 1500 metric tons of 2 types of fish for the high end international market. The site is about 30 miles north and the a 30 minute boat ride.
Heidi and I will take the kids to a mud bath today about 20 minutes outside of town.
Be sure to look at the phots from Hoi An on the previous post - I did 2 this morning.
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