Ahhhh, crap.
I’m in the beach resort town of Nha Trang….eating, sleeping, watching satellite tv, surfing the web with free wifi and occasionally dragging my ass down to teh beach. It was all good for a while until I learned that it gets cold in North Vietnam. And when I mean cold, I mean in the mountainous region there could be snow. Yea, I know, snow. What the hell. I don’t want to buy a jacket. Crap.
Well, there’s not much else I can do so I adjusted the old plan a bit. I was sort of moving a bit fast as I was thinking that I might get done with Vietnam in a month so as not to have to leave and then come back (visa issues). But now after surfing the net I have learned that it isn’t difficult to extend the visa so now time is not an issue. The weather on the other hand is something that I am not going to be able to alter. It is going to be cold until April. I figure that I will just man up one more time and be slightly uncomfortable doing the Northern Vietnam route. Now if its rainy thats a whole different story.
For now, I am going to start heading inland to jump on the Ho Chi Minh trail through the central highlands. I am targeting to be at the DMZ around Christmas and new year which will make it right at one month, extend my Visa and then have one more month to finish Northern Vietnam. From there I can cruise all the way back down Laos back to Cambodia and then back up through Thailand to the north and then back down to the beaches and islands. Piece of cake. So thats the plan well at least thats todays plan.
Tags: Vietnam