This post should have been posted much earlier because now the holliday is over and I am back to work in Norway. Unfortunately I got sick the day before we left Vietnam and that is why I never got to finish mye little series about our Vietnam hollidays.

Ho Chi Minh City is a beautiful and busy city. Three days is to shott to get to know the city, but I quite liked it.

As I am a mother of two teenage girls, these theee days in HCM City was spent in Vincom shopping center, Ben Tan market, Saigon square 1 and The New Playground (a shopping center for youngsters). So no time for serious exploring of the city 😉

As we ealked around in District 1 we passed a few buildings which were coveret with green plants. There are also a lot of buildings in French Colony style, so the architecture in this city is very mixed and I find it very interesting.

It is easy to get around in HCM City, just take a taxi. We stayed at the beautuful Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon.

I am glad we spent our summer holiday i Vietnam this year. Vietnam is an exciting country to visit for those who like to do more than just sunbathing and relax. A combination  of some days in a big city with a more quiet place for sunbathing is perfect in my opinion.

All the pictures in this and the three earlier posts has been shot with my omd  iPhone 7+.

The last days in Nha Trang we went to two different temples. The Luong Son Pagoda and the Po Nagar Temple.

The Luong Son Pagoda was built in 1886. The White Buddha is 19 meters high and rest on a lotus throne on top of Trai Thuy Hill just behind the Pagoda.

The Po Nagar Cham Temple lies just out side Nha Trang by the Cai River. It is constructed in the period between 7th and 12th century and it was restored in the 1960s. You get a great view of Nha Trang from the Temple. There are a lot of tourists at the site and you have to buy a ticket to visit the site.

We spent one day in Vinpearl Land. Vin Pearl Land is located on an island just outside Nha Trang. It is a family park with lots of activities in addition to an aquarium and zoo. To get there you have to take a gondola ( cable car) or a ferry. We went by cable car, very nice because you get a good view over the Nha Trang area.

Cable car ride

View from the park to Nha Trang

We spent most time in the aquarium and the zoo.

Vinpearl Land is absolutely worth a visit!

The beach in Nha Trang is very long and it is surrounded by palm trees, a very trafficated road and a lot of hotels. Crossing the road is a risky business but if you cross the road were there are traffic lights it is a little bit safer. But the beach is beautiful and the water is so refreshing 😊

At the beach

The wind is perfect for kites

When in Nha Trang you have to visit the Dam market. Here you can by approximately anything you want. But be sure to bring some water with you because it is hot and crowdy. We bought some summer clothing there. They have small fitting rooms were you can try the clothes before buying.

Dam market, inside

As we are travelling with some friends that speak vietnames and knows Nha Trang very well we have had very good help getting around in the city. They also have a lot of friends and family in the area so one evening we had a private dinner in a private home. We had a lovely dinner with traditional vietnamese food and vegetables. It was very tasty.

For a couple of years now we have planned for a trip to Vietnam and Nha Trang during our summer hollidays. Now, after a very long flight, we are finally here. We are travelling with another vietnamese family who has been in Nha Trang many times, this is our first trip to Vietnam.

During the first days of the trip we focused on resting and getting our sleep pattern on track again. It is 5 hours time difference between Norway and Vietnam. Beside sleeping a lot we have spent the days by the skimming pool only interupted by eating.

We live at Sunrise Beach Hotel and Spa which is a beatiful hotel located in Nha Trang city center just by the beach. Our room has a lovely view.

To day we went to a little fishing village, Luong Son. Here we visited family members of our travel companions and after the visit we went to have som fresh seafood just by the sea.

The vietnamese fishing boats of Luong Son are so beautiful, colorful and quite different from european modern fishing boats.