Day 65 and 66: Massages and Eggs

Day 65

After the adrenaline filled day yesterday, we are going to have a relaxing one today. After breakfast, we head down to the beach for our usual two hour top up. The waves on this coast from Danang to here have all been so strong, today I get knock down, much to Ben's amusement, just at the shore.

Once we get too hot we come back and get ourselves ready for a very taxing and so tiring, massage (tehe) As you might have read before I'm not so keen on massages as they seem to be unbearable painful so I've carefully looked through the salons lists and decided that a sunburn soother sounds like it will be the least painful. Yeah, wishful thinking on my part. Still as agonisingly painful, so much so that at one point the lady stopped and apologised. But at least I'm now very well moisturised. To finish off I have a manicure and pedicure and go for bright red nail varnish so feel quite divine.

Lunch, I'm ashamed to say, is at the Pita again. It was just next door to the salon and they do over filled pitas for £2 and they really are delicious. Feeling all full and relaxed (Ben loved his massage) we decide against the beach with our new moisturised skin and check out the roof top area on the hotel.

Its cool and got sofas so we don't leave until sunset. Back to the beach for pictures and then, don't judge us, back to Pita for dinner. I know, I know we should be trying new places, but honestly until you've tried this platter you can't comment. The staff are really pleased to see us and give us the best table in the house. The platter is as good as yesterday and so is the delicious dessert, we get up to leave when the head waitress asks us to wait, I'm thinking she wants a photo or to ask us to write a review when she comes out with 2 free cocktails and thanks us for our custom! Was such a nice gesture if it wasn't for the fact we were already pretty drunk at this point. Drink drunk and I've got from a 4 "Ooh this feels nice" tipsy to a 8 "Let's go dancing" merry. Ben's not so keen though and that probably isn't a bad thing as with 10 minutes the room starts spinning.

Day 66

Urrgg, I feel so rough today. I woke up a few times in the night with the room still bouncing off itself and I'm hot and thirsty. The only saving grace is that Ben looks as rough as me and he has the added fun of being locked in the toilet which I have to break in to to get him out. Breakfast works it magic and we are off down to the beach to recover. We decided, after our free drinks, and because it's getting a bit embarrassing that we won't go to the Greek restaurant again tonight "You can't handle the platter" I'm getting a bit peckish and have had a craving for ice cream for days so we grab a sundae at an ice cream parlour called Romy's just around the corner from the beach. It's a bit too much for Ben's fragile hungover yummy and we are back in the room for a nap.

Carrying on our pampering theme from yesterday, this afternoon we are heading off to a mud bath place in the hills that seems a little obsessed with eggs. We drive for about 15 minutes out of town and then turn down a dirt track which seems to go on for ages until suddenly a giant egg appears in front of us. We are taken through a really professional gated entrance by a guy who, bless him, was keen but English is worse than my Vietnamese. We get shown to separate changing rooms and the directed to a warm rain style shower before we are shown to our bath which, you might have guessed it, is the shape of an egg. It's about 7ft high and you could at at push fit 4 people in but nicely fits us. Once you are in, the slowly filled it will warm, cream consistency mud till about chest height and you get about 20 minutes to play around. We dunk ourselves and generally splash around until our 20 minutes is up and we feel like prunes. 

Once out, you dry in the sun for a bit so the mud gets nicely caked on and then you wash it off with some quite brutal showers. Oh my, my skin feels amazing after this, I'm all soft and lovely and we finish off our spa experience with a jacuzzi. This egg spa isn't the only thing on site so we get changed and see what else we can find. As part of our ticket we get a free drink and a snack, which again you might have guessed, is egg based. We both go for a big plate of egg fried rice which is really welcome after our swim as I'm starving. 

The park is laid out into different villages with shops and attractions in each one but the place is deserted. On our hour explore we only see a couple of gardeners and a handful of other tourists and all the kiosks are closed, it would be deadly quiet if they weren't pumping out the strangest bird song that kept looping and crackling. It's quite a nice walk though and we see some cool egg pods that you can stay in and unfortunately some monkeys that weren't kept in the largest or challenging cages. 

We grab a taxi back into town and go off in search of some new food after our vow to avoid the mouth watering, scrumptious platter, hmmm.... We were given a flyer on the beach earlier for a Mexican place which turns out to be a bit of a disappointment as the food is too hot for me and the portions are tiny. Once back in the hotel, we FaceTime Ben's mum and sisters and they sit us at the table and eat Sunday Roast that we normally go and have each week.