Mui Ne, Vietnam

Arrival: 02/10/09 1:30pm

Departure: 02/11/09 1:30pm

Sight Seeing: Beach, Sand dunes

People: Friendly

Food: Delicious

Accommodations: Ngi Than ($10 per night)

Pictures: Pictures of Vietnam

Summary: Mui Ne was an old fishing town at one end of the beach and a wanna be high end beach resort town at the other end. I wouldn't recommend stopping unless you want to break up the 10 hour drive from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang.

Details: After another five hour bus ride, Adam and I were happy to stretch our legs with a walk on Mui Ne beach. It was overcast and humid. On the northern end of the beach, there were hundreds of fishing boats in the harbor. We could see the unfortunate effects of the fishing industry after walking on the trash filled beach. I wouldn't recommend swimming in the water, but it was very beautiful to look at. We discovered the town had little to offer but a few restaurants and beach resorts where Adam ordered a watery coconut. It doesn't taste anything like you would imagine. The rest of the evening we laid low and relaxed in our cheap accommodations. The next morning we caught a cab to the famous sand dunes. There was a big miscommunication between us and the cab driver who wanted to take us to some other sand dunes that were lord knows how far away. It ended up costing us way more that we planned on spending but it happens. We we arrived at the closer sand dunes and they were anything but memorable. I guess that's what you get for living in the most beautiful place in the world, California.
After lunch, we caught a 1:30 bus heading towards Nha Trang, another beach town.