World Traveler

At first Nha Trang seemed my kind of place; nice beaches and it was sunny for the first time in my three weeks of travelling the country, until now we had only seen torrential rain!  Plus its a pretty big city so there was plenty to see and do.  My sister and me decided to have an alone day – to save on arguments but it rarely helps, nice all the same though. We met up later and she said that she’d found a tour guide for Monkey Island, I had found one cheaper but she introduced me to the guide she had met.  She had been with him all day and he had bought her dinner and drinks in the local café but was blatantly trying to sell her loads of tours, to which she was totally oblivious.  He’d been nice to her so we decided to go on the tour with him instead of the cheaper place that I had found. 

We all left the café and went to play pool, while we were playing we noticed him with his hand in her bag!  At this point, obviously, we cancelled the tour.  He threatened to run us down with his motorbike; “I think you’re going to have an accident� were his exact words, whilst revving the engine on his motorbike.

We got back to the guest house about dinner time and saw the crazy tour guide thief fly down the road in our direction just as we were crossing the road, shouting obscenities at us, lucky I saw him first.  He kept following us around so we had to go into a bar to lose him – it was like some kind of action movie.  We came out a couple hours later and headed back to the guest house, which was a five minute walk away and it was only 10pm.  Two men on a motorbike drove up the pavement and ripped my bag off me, which was across my shoulder.  I didn’t have much to take; about £3 and my mobile phone but it was out of battery so without a pin number they couldn’t use the chip or the phone so it’s useless to them but the cut from where they ripped my bag off of me was bleeding loads and burnt like hell! 

I had to, for insurance purposes, report it to the police, which was impossible as they had no idea what I was saying. I got the manager from the hotel to try to help translate but his English was really limited.  I was in the police station in the middle of the night for about 3 hours and getting nowhere.  Needless to say I was happy when I finally got to leave Nha Trang!

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