Sunday, 27 April 2014

Day 104 – Nha Trang Big Buddha.

We had a nice lie in, which was nice after the couple of early starts. We didn’t really have a lot planned for the day so I looked at my list of things to do and one of them was to go and see the Big Buddha called Long Son Pagoda. I googled and found out the walk should take around half an hour and there was a so called shopping centre on the way so we could grab lunch in the food court there.


Well, online it said it had a cinema and it was 5 floors so I was expecting something bigger than what we turned up too. It was smaller than Debenhams in Palmerston road, just to give you some scale. We still ate there in ‘Jollibee’, which is one of Vietnam’s fast food restaurants. This features mostly fried chicken that comes with rice or chips. It was alright, but not really the food court I had in mind.



From here the walk to the Buddha was only about 5minutes. I’m always impressed when seeing a Buddha statue in Asia because they are SO big, like stupidly big and they’re always really high up somewhere. We had to climb a fair few stairs to get to the top. We chilled up there for a bit before heading back. We decided to walk to the beachfront and go that way back to the hostel instead. By the time we got back it was nearly dinnertime so we went to Trip Advisor’s number 4 called Lanterns. It was absolutely packed in there but lucky for us there was one table ready for us to take. The food was better than yesterdays but it’s lower down which doesn’t make sense.

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