This town has some well preserved beach areas that we did not go to. Should have. Instead, we took the shuttle into "town" to see where Hindu worship was ever popular in the 2nd century. What we found were about 10 guys that followed our every step trying to get us to take a cyclo ride for one dollar (they said). We found a gal named Han. She showed us the way to the Dam Market area. It was about 5 long blocks one way, two blocks another way, then 2 blocks another way. We followed her and the guys with the cyclos all followed us. It was a parade of sorts. We finally found the market and wondered why we wanted to go there. It was crowed, hot and did not have what we were looking for, those ever famous pearls from 2009! What we found were small shops that were full of things like from Claire's at a mall and some pearls that were WAY over priced. Nicky got too close to a dog that was chained and the dog lunged at him and thank goodness Nicky had a big Auburn jersey on. It protected him from getting a very unfortunate dog bite in Vietnam! The dog bit the jersey instead of Nicky! We quickly took 4 of the 10 guys on for a ride and got out of there. They peddled us back to the shuttle bus and we went shopping at stalls non the pier. There we were able to find a few treasure to bring home. We have some interesting photos but have to find a time when the internet is better able to handle the posting of the photos ( really late at night or VERY early in the morning).
We are on our way to Ho Chi Mihn City (Saigon). We will spend St. Patrick's Day there!
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