Vinpearl Land

We got to Nha Trang early in the morning so we had the whole day and we decided to go to Vinpearl Land. Basically a company bought the whole island across the the bay from the main beach and turned it into a theme park/ resort.
The worlds longest cable car ride (actually. it holds the record for the longest in the world) about 12 min to get across the water and we got some pretty nice views.







 It cost 360000 dong to get in ($18) and you had access to everything in the park. Once in the park we discovered that food was pretty cheap compared to other places in Nha Trang but none of us really seemed to have an apatite that day which was kinda a bummer.
Inside the park there was a section for rides, one for arcade games, a section for shops, another for the aquarium, a section for food stalls and then a water park and a beach at the end of the park.
Since we are all cheap backpackers we wanted to to everything to make sure we got our moneys woth

First we went to the aquarium. It was alright I guess. Not themed or anything like the one in Siam, Bangkok. And the animals in there didnt look to great either. Most of them were in tanks that were much too small for them and half of the fish that should be swimming around just sat there all the time.

After that was the water slides. Not badly laid out over the area and the idea of the slides wasnt too bad either. The actual slides though didnt quite work out. The rainbow one which you used mats for worked good for most of it, and then right at the end there is a whole bunch of water to slow you down.
 Except it doesnt really slow you down. It just kinda stops the mat so you end up going flying over or into one of the lanes beside you. The "Tsunami" one where you go up and down the 2 sides until gravity slows it down had a few miscalculations in the planning. The walls werent big enough so you would run into them on either side until you get to the exit. Another one that didnt work out too well was the big blue and green one. The seams weren't joined properly so the whole way down the plastic bumped and scratched your back. It actually really hurt, so much that we decided to stay far away from them even though all the other slides were closed. All the slides had a :30 min open :30 min closed schedule. But they didnt seem to follow the schedule.
Because you would walk all the way up the metal grid stairs that hurt your feet only to find out that you cant go down the slide and have to walk all the way back down.

The beach was really good though. Nice white imported sand and beach chairs (free this time). The water was also nice and warm so we hung out there for a while.

Afterwords we went on a couple of rides which had the same real schedule as the slides and then saw the "Animal Circus". It was kinda cool but kinda sad as well. None of the animals looked very happy, especially the monkeys. They did do some cool tricks though and at one point one of the monkeys got loose and ran off the stage.

Then we had some dinner and went to see the light show. It was really good actually. Almost comparable to the Bellagio. This one was smaller but had a whole bunch of different types of fountains and lights and lasers. they featured music from all around the world as well which was pretty great too.

More pictures in the Nha Trang album on the left.

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