The 30 hour bus ride in the middle of a typhoon ...

 The Typhoon, the bus and ME!

So I hopped on the sleeping bus from Hoi An to NHA TRANG, which is suppossed to take 11 hours. We had heavy downpour but they said it is going to be all right ...no problem mam ...

Well so I get on the bus ...around 7pm in Hoi An ...

Around 11:30pm we stopped and started loading the bags from below into the bus and off we went trouhg chest high flowing water ... on the bus ... quiet scary ... with the headlights under water and the busdrivers assistant holding the flashlight so that we don't hit debris.

OK I thought that was it ...well 3 am we stop somewhere, it is still raining. Then we get on the bus move but turn around again.

We went back to the place where we had stopped and waited there and waited. There were 3 tourist sleeping buses there, and around 75 people. And all 3 bus drivers and their guys did NOT speak english. Great ...so they had us sit there at the end of somewhere ...it did not look nice ...with no info what was going on. 

So after a couple hours of no info we started to try to talk to the drivers ...we did have an english speaking vietnamese woman with us so she helped a lot. But the info we got we felt did not really make sense. Everybody had the feeling they were just keeping us there. So we waited,people called travel agencies etc...

So in the end we left that place around 7pm ...and drove again through water for 5 hours to Nha Trang....

So this 11 hour bus ride turned out to be 30 hours long ..how fun is that ..

But I met again lots of interesting people on that trip. People I have been running into here in Nha Trang quiet frequently. Some of us are going to meet up at the sailing club tonight. (supposed to be THE place here)

My hotel here is nice, cheap and clean and centrally located. I had a fab breakfast in the morning. I checked out the normally fab beach today, well ain't looking to good ...so I decided to leave tomorrow morning to go to the highlands to Dalat.

I will be leaving at 8am and it takes 5 hours.

See ya there ... I checked the weather ..no storms predicted.

xoxo Sabine