Nha Trang

In Nha Trang, the sea has a street address: the city's central beach takes its name from Trần Phú Street. Its stories climb a hill to the Cham towers of Tháp Bà Ponagar and visit a museum that keeps a humpback whale skeleton 18 meters long. They cross the bay to Hòn Tằm, where a mud bath steps down the eastern slope like terraced rice fields. In island caves, swiftlets press strands of saliva into tiny cup-shaped nests, and nest gatherers still honor the founding ancestor of their trade.