16/02: Beaching and another negative Vietnam experience.

Didn't do much today. Just laid on the beach, reading, walking around town and drinking an ice-coffee. At 6.30pm we were supposed to take the bus to Hoi An. When the bus arrived they said they couldn't take the bikes with them. There was already to much luggage in the bus. Plus we had to buy an extra ticket for each bike. But, the bikes would be sent to Hoi An on the next bus the  following morning. Yes well, NOT an option! We tried to negotiate a bit about the price, but it was a no go all the way. The guy said that we could get a refund and take the nightbus tomorrow. This is just bullshit! We said the guy in the tourbus office that we had two bikes with us and the reply was "no problem, just pay the busdriver something". And now they can't take us & the bikes with them?? Frustration started to build up, and after ten minutes the busdriver just drove off with the words "get your refund in the tourbus office". So there we stould then... The frustration came out in tears with me, Ardan was just angry. So we had to stay another night in Nha Trang. But then we asked the lady from the hotel if there was another bus leaving tonight to Hoi An. She made a phonecall and there was. Offcourse also pay an extra ticket for each bike. Grrrr. But we took the offer, because we realised that there was no way around that. So we got on the bus and after 20 minutes this bus had engineproblems. The busdriver and some other guys of the company started to 'fix' things. After 30 minutes we were back on the road, but no 5 minutes later, the engine just shut down. They're trying to 'fix' things again, but even a novice like me can hear that it won't be fixed! I guess they need more time to realize they have to call their company to sent another bus! We waited for 4 hours on a busy road. They kept trying to fix it. Then finally another bus came to pick us up. But first this busdriver also spent an hour trying to fix it. Finally they just tried insence on the motor, yeah well that was just to strange for all the white people on the bus! Everybody got a bit agitated...Why can't we get on the other bus and leave, why do we need to stay here and whatch you guys trying to fix something that can't be fixed?? Finally we took off...

Note to our readers: We know that our blog in Vietnam is more negative then the rest, but it's just one thing after the other. We enjoy the nature and the people in little towns and villages, but there are always this things in the bigger places that makes the Vietnam experience a less fun experience. It's not only us, we've already met a lot of people who've had the same problems in Vietnam and put Vietnam on the bottom of their list. Plus on almost every bikerblog we read, same problems. Normally you would say that 5 people or 5 bad experiences fade out next to a 100 positive ones. But the contrast is just so big when you compare it to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia. Let's see what Hoi An brings us tomorrow. And most of all, at what time we will arrive there.