A day in Vung Tau

Our morning start late because I couldn’t get up early as initially planned for 8am departure. Luckily the boat leaves every hour so we took the 10 o’clock speed boat, took about an hour an half to get from Saigon to Vung Tao – the closest beach to Saigon. I slept most of the way there since I couldn’t really see anything outside the window because of glass was foggy.

Off the boat, we jumped on the taxi and 8km later we were at the beach. For hot Sunday afternoon, there weren’t many people swimming and no bikini babes for a conservative country like Vietnam. The whole time I was there, I didn’t spot any Westerners – but that due to we hang out a bit further from the big crowd.

As we sat and relax, there were many people came to ask us to buy food and stuffs. There were even card readers (fortune tellers) asking up if we want to be read – a lady trying to entice to me to use her service said “by the look of your face you can woo and get any girl, just that you don’t”. Me and my Phuong just sat there looking at each other and laughed.

The beach was dirty and filthy full of rubbish. As they sell food on the beach, people ate and throw the left over right there. The water was murky due to the brown sand.

We didn’t tour around Vung Tau as I was told there weren’t much else to see. We only walked up to the big statue of Jesus. Great view from up there.