Whale Island is a paridisical, French run resort island, off the east coast of Vietnam around 2 hours north of Nha Trang. We had made special arrangements for our overnight bus from Hoi an to drop us somewhere nearby. We had no idea when they would drop us off as they did not speak english, we also did not know if they understood where we wanted them to drop us off. Anyways, in the early hours fo the morning after a very rough journey we got dropped off on a dark corner of the road and got pointed in a direction. We crossed the road to find a bus from the resort waiting for us, amazing! they drove us quickly through the night down a tarmac road which was being swallowed up by the sand dunes. eventually we arrived at the waters edge and walked along a very rickety wooden pier and boarded a boat. After abour 30 minutes the boat pulled into a harbour with a sandy beach. We had arrived at our Chistmas destination, and sure enough it was raining.
The island was very beautiful, the food was excellent, the people were very friendly and our beach hut was very nice the only thing to slightly let it down was the weather. It rained almost all the time we were there apart from half of the last day.
My first Christmas away from home was a wierd experience, warm but wet we had our main Christmas meal on Christmas Eve in the tradition of the French(apparently). We had an excellent 4 course meal including a yuel log. For two nights including that one we shared our meal with a very nice couple from France and Germany. The wine flowed. 
We left on the 27th and headed for Nha Trang.
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