Vietnam is, crudly speaking, long and thin. The magority of toutists I have met are either travelling north to south (like me) or south to north. This means that touse travrlling in the opposite direction to you are full of useful (and some not so useful advice) on the things youshould see and places you shoud go. Almost everyone I have met to who has been to Nha Trang has told me to skip it. "Tacky, touristy, busy, expensive, a rip off" I decided to go anyway to find out for myself. It will break up the journey between Quy Nhon and Da Lat and I want to see for myself the contrast with Quy Nhon, where i struggled to find another tourist, and Nha Trang 135 miles away
By contrast everyone I met in Nha Trang seemed to love it there, probably to do with the beach, the night life and the huge water park. It is very touristy and there are some eyesore hotels along the strip and my oppinion was somewhere in between, not somewhere I want to spend a huge amour of time but fun for a day and interesting to see.