So we took the evening train from Hoi An to Nha Trang. We asked for (and paid for) soft seats with air conditioning, but when we collected our tickets three were entirely in Vietnamese, and one said soft seat air con, and that one ticket was in a different car. We were a little nervous until I translated one of the phrases into "air conditioning". That said, trains are great but sitting in a chair for 8+ hours is no fun. We napped, sat in the dining car for a while but the general concensus was that a sleeper would have been worth the extra money even though we weren't on the train overnight. We got into Nha Trang an hour and a half late (at midnight) so I went right to sleep and woke up for a 7am scuba trip. Nobody else was so motivated so I was the only one of our group, and as it turns out I was the only tourist recreational diver on the boat too. There were about 10 instructors in training though so I just chatted them up. The diving was great, I saw a bunch of nudibranches, pipe fish, vertical swimming coral fish, various types of scorpion fish including a white fin scorpion fish. BTW do not touch the scorpion fish or you'll have a bad time. Not as many star fish but still lots of clown fish. So now we're chilling on the beach, Leah is sleeping on a mat beside me and Ryan and Holly have gone off for lunch.
"Nha Trang is for diving"
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