Nha Trang and Dalat <- quite nice really

Nha Trang

Go to Nha Trang by nightbus, arrive and get a 6 dollar room with Jen (so 3 dollars each!). I buy goggles for swimming, get home, turn out they're broken, go back, get other ones (lady asked for me to pay 15.000 extra, I paid 10.000). Try them out; they're as waterproof as a basket; dump them in the nearest the trash can (they were a euro). Meet Marleen and Linda from gibbon experience again and go to have drinks with them that night.

Me and Jen head over to a nice temple / pagoda, with a huge seated Buddha image, we're all chilled out after we chill out there.

Next we take a HUGE cable car construction to a big Island where there's a theme park (Vinpearl). We do all the rides pretty much, but I thought the bumper cars were the best. I'd just drive around the track cleverly evading everyone's attempts to bump me, since I am now an adherent of non-violence :P I had a clever escape move where I'd put it in reverse, which made me virtually untouchable. There's a waterpark with all kinds of slides. There's one with lanes and a mat and at the end I crash, do a summersault and hit my chin. After this I report to the medical ward where I get a bandage like I'm 4 years old again. There's also a really cool acquarium at this place.

Next day me and Jen walk to some Cham ruins, which are cool but a lot smaller than we thought. The Cham empire was quite huge for a while, but continuasly got the shit kicked out of it by the Thais and the Vietnamese I believe, to the point where they didn't exist as a society anymore, they're still a minority though.

Catch bus to Dalat

First day I watch Krishanmurti for two hours while meditating and then just meditated for 20 minutes, which made me feel extremely chilled out, mindful and centred. As I walk around after this, I take note of this and start to appropriate it (thining how I'm 'the shit'). Next day I can feel the resultant arrogance from appropriation....this gives rise to an opportunity to see the rule of cause and effect in action however. Attachment to pleasure and ego is always unsatisfactory in the end, in that the rule of cause and effect will always bring about it's opposite in due time.

In Dalat I go to some crazy house which was made by the second president's daughter. Look at the pictures to see how crazy it is. Also go to see the local pagoda, which isn't that impressive, but it's still nice, since all pagodas have that air of calm and tranquility. As you can see in the pictures, me and Jen eat a lot. We have now however imposed the rule upon ourselves that we may only eat Veitnamese food until we leave the country. So no more Western food and hence no more cake either. One reason we eat so much is because we're both huge. The fact that we're huge in time, makes all of the Vietnamese people tap each other, point and stare as we go by.