A French station from 1936, with one of the last balloon loops still in use
An intact 1936 French station building — a rare survivor
A dead-end station with its own locomotive turning loop
Trains running within arm's reach of houses — properly cinematic
Check arrival and departure times (there are usually trains around midday and in the afternoon) so you catch one coming in; stay outside the safety fence when photographing the loop.
Built in 1936, Nha Trang station is one of the handsomest working French-era stations left in Vietnam: tiled roof, arched openings, yellow walls gone soft with age. What makes it unusual is that it is a dead-end station — trains have to run around an oval loop that wraps a residential block in order to turn, and the sight of carriages sliding past people's front doors has become a fixture of the Phước Tân quarter.
For anyone who likes architecture or photography it is the most photogenic piece of old Nha Trang in the centre: the old ticket hall, the wooden benches, the north–south trains pausing a few minutes and rolling on. It sits next to the Stone Church, so it costs you almost no extra travelling.
Come to Nha Trang without eating gỏi cá mai and the trip is not complete
One family, one recipe, nearly 50 years. Fish landed that morning, rolled in rice paper and dipped in a secret fish sauce — the same taste since 1977.
