I arrived in Nha Thrang from Dalat around lunchtime and as soon as I found a guesthouse I straight away set about seeing the sights. I immediately was pestered by a moto driver so I hired him for a couple of hours to take me to all the places I wanted to go. My first port of call was the National Oceanographic Museum which had a large selection of displays, although unfortunately most of the information was in Vietnamese which obviously wasn't very helpful, but there was also lots of marine life, both alive and pickled in jars. When I was out at that end of town I could see across the sea to Hon Tre Island where there is a big complex. In my guide book it says that they were planning on building a cable car 3km across the sea to the mainland which would be such an exhilirating ride! Unfortunately I hadn't realised that it would be complete and so hadn't budgeted it into my time, but I have been on one cable car in Vietnam so I am quite content.

Next I went to the Alexandre Yersin Museum, which was interesting, although disappointingly small. In contrast to the previous museum where everything had been in Vietnamese, the majority of displays in this one were in French. The main displays had English translation but all the captions to documents and pictures were in French so I had to think back to the French I'd learned in school and try to decipher them. Yersin came to Nha Trang at the end of the 19th century and repeatedly visited throughout the rest of his life; he is in fact buried there. He is most famous for discovering the microbe that causes bubonic plague, but he was also a key player in a number of other important medical discoveries. Aside from his medical interests Yersin was a forward thinker in terms of engineering and technology; he was the first person in Nha Trang to obtain a car, he considered buying a plane, and by the 30's he regularly flew from Europe to Asia. The museum wasn't that big so I didn't need to stay very long to see everything, and then I was driven by moto to Po Nagar Cham Towers. The Cham Empire is the equivilant of the Angkor Empire I suppose, and they looked pretty similar. There was a small museum of relics to have look at, but the overall site didn't take up too much time as there are only 4 small towers.

I got dropped off at the train station and then I walked to Dalat Cathedral which was really pretty despite being made out of concrete bricks. I had originally planned to stay 2 days in Nha Trang but I managed to see everything in one afternoon so tomorrow I am going to move on. For the rest of the afternoon I sat by the beach for a while, but it was rather windy so I found a nice restaurant with a really good set dinner menu for $5 (garlic bread, scallops, cinammon pork with mash potato, fruit salad and a glass of local wine).