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Day #17: From Nha Trang back to Quy Nhon beach (16-May-2010)

Waking up to a subtlety so pleasant, the bareness rather breath-taking. Misty, but it was all I could ask for to start a day. Nothing like things back home, a jumble of traffic chaos & human commotion. There isn't much for today. & I shall cut it even shorter, for life now is somehow an avalanche. Shall touch on that some time else, it getting... Very very late. Work in the morning is another dread. Drying freshly caught ikan bilis in the sun.

When you're constantly surrounded in beauty, it can be difficult to cherish it. Garbage-strewn (below). But it did add some color to the final composition, didn't it? A sweet misdeed.

Ingenuity at its best (below).

(Above) The view from the Cham Tower so strategically positioned for bird's eye view of Nha Trang city.

Ok what a blur. I can't remember the location of this Cham Tower, but it was high up, the view from which was refreshingly inspring. It was something you could design a cityscape from, like something right out of a Ghibli film, which I so enjoy...

Back-breaking work at the salt plant; a glimpse of the fishing village. It all leads me to give 'work' another thought. Something questionable to live for.

As I'd said earlier on, Quy Nhon is a coastal town, but I hadn't gotten to see its 'coastal' side. There, now I do. It was dusk. & it occurred to me how dawn & dusk look so utterly similar it's hard to differentiate between the 2; perhaps only through the amount of human activities going on at the beach?

Quy Nhon & its beautiful night scene along the beach. It isn't one as highly cluttered as Nha Trang's, but nonetheless still a fantastic place to chill for the night. 'Chill', yes, it was indeed chilly, rather literally. More so because of it serenity. It's good when humans aren't in abundance.

I hadn't many photos this day. Know why? Simply 'cause I'd spent almost the entire day with humans! Meeting humans. Unwelcomed humans, which I constantly had to smile at (despite my reluctance to). It's simply a sad fact that time has to be divided so cruelly. When you enjoy company, you gotta give up time to admire the surrounding's little beautiful things. Caught up in little conversations & all, they all take time. How disappointing. Thus my day did end dark, dark like that sky, only without the little shimmering lights as consolation.