Also, go to the Vinpearl Amusement Park in Nha Trang (get a ride in the longest over-water cable car).

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Other walkers decided to head north toward Bark Bay (about two-and-a-half hours farther) and get a water taxi ride from there.

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But Wiggins' winning ride, coming amid a two-day flurry of British medals on the water and in the saddle, appeared to be the moment when London and the wider nation decided to stop worrying and enjoy the party for which they were, after all, footing the bill.

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Despite abuse from a 15-pound baby girl, an attack by a pack of feral raccoons, a chewing by an ADD-addled river otter named Sidney, a ride to the bottom of a salt water pool with a dolphin, and a stomping from a 7, 400 pound elephant named Valerie, the Casio had survived.

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