Day 11

The day started the usual way, breakfast, packing, making plans for the day...
We had a mini bus coming to take us to Nah Trang at 3pm, so we decided to visit the Dalat Markets for a while. On our way there, we stumbled across a little place just off the main road with the nicest smells driffting out onto the street. We were pretty hungry so we stopped there for lunch, and while some people didnt quite like their food, I actually had the best meal in county so far!
We walked down the road to the markets and looked around. Some people purchased gifts for those back home, but obviously I can't talk about that because that would ruin the element of surprise! We coulnt spend too much time at the markets so we walked back and sat in the lobby of our hotel.
With the thought of a long bus ride to Nah Trang and an overnight train ride, many decided it was a good idea to stock up on snacks and drinks.
The bus ride was through the mountains, down to the sea side city and I was surprised that no one became car sick. When we dropped to a certain altitude, the humidity and heat hit us hard. All of a sudden it was just horrible and sticky! But it was not as bad as Nah Trang itself.
The thought of cramming into the packed, non air conditioned city train station for the next 4 hours was the most horrible thought ever! Those hours were the worst on the trip for me. There was a TV at the front which I actually wished we could turn off because all it did was play the same 15 minutes of a movie in 33 second intervals with 3 minutes of adverts in between over and over and over! We did have a break though when we went to get dinner and there was a funny moment when we tryed to use the toilet which was all automatic. Mrs LeLay found out the hard way that one of the toilets was not working and Darcy, trying to skip the 10c fee got stuck in one at the exact point the lights went out and the room disinfect itself. He came out wih dripping wet shoes, but at least they were clean.
when the train finally arrived (late) we had a bit of trouble finding our bunks, seeing as the tickets were in Vietnamese.. Finally all settled down, I realised I was in the same cabbin as Jye because the unmistakable of his socks was suffocating us. I dont think he had taken them off OR washed them the whole trip! Even with them stuffed in his bag we had to sanitise the whole cabbin, just to get rid of half the smell! It was quite funny looking back at it.. Im sure the night didn't end there for the boys, but I wouldn't know because I fell asleep early from exhaustion.
It was a pretty long day!