Mui Ne, Vietnam Travel Blogs

Sand in all of the crevices.
Apr 15, 2009 (29 photos)

... . One of the men was huge and really unattractive and the small asian girl was stunning. We raised our eyebrows. The bus at Mui Ne dropped us off coincedentally right outside where we'd decided to stay so that was easy. The place is really small, which ...

Beach Time
Aug 30, 2008 (17 photos)

... . Kids rent you a square of linoleum to go "sand boarding" but I'll be damned if you can slide down the dunes on those things. Mui Ne is popular with the Vietnamese as it is not far from Saigon and a great place to unwind and escape the hustle and bustle.

Probably the Best Game of Football in the World
Jun 10, 2006 (8 photos)

... I chose to go by way of a local diver and bike. The Red Sand Dunes are one of two large sand dune areas around Mui Ne which more closely resembles a desert than it does excess beach deposits with the dunes completely filling your field of view (as well ...

Flying kites and reading books.
Apr 7, 2007 (3 photos)

... coast and give it an enthusiastic thumbs up (props to Hood River Jim and John Mc from NC!). In particular, the beach at Mui Ne had come highly recommended, so we figured why not? I don't imagine there are many places on earth where you could stay in a ...

Hotel Hopping
Jun 9, 2006 (4 photos)

... he had to lean a little too close for comfort to be heard and added another unwanted dimension to the heat/grit/smell befuddlement. Mui Ne is nothing much more than a strip of buildings, most of them resorts, along a beautiful palm fringed beach with ...

Surreal surroundings on the sea shore
Dec 2, 2005 (24 photos)

... and bars that stretches for kilometres along the coast, ending a few clicks short of the fishing village actually known as Mui Ne. The village is quite cute with hundreds of colourful fishing boats crushed into a small space in the corner of ...

Vietnam's Coast - Nah Trang and Mui Ne
Nov 13, 2008 (7 photos)

... curl up in a ball and sleep all the way... and we also met up with Roxy that day, as she was on our bus! Mui Ne is a pretty small town with just one very long, very straight road running along the coast. There is a "rumour" amongst backpackers ...

Mui Ne Nights..
Jan 24, 2007 (5 photos)

... a mile out of town. Not much to report here, we simply bummed by the pool for 3 straight days and loved every minute of it. Sucks to be you! Guess that's about it for Mui Ne. Next Pod - Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. Love, Nath and Kat.

Back in Nam
Jun 13, 2005

... the sea out of control with massive powerful kites, akin to being dragged along by an extremely pissed man in a helicopter! This was in Mui Ne, one of the top 5 kitesurfing beaches in the world. We've now been trying to get up each morning to go diving ...

Hit the beaches and northbound!!!
Dec 16, 2004

... Vietnam and Cambodia. After saying our farewells we headed back up the coast to "Ni Trang", a coastal resort much larger than "Mui Ne" but still very nice and relaxed, beautiful stretch of beach, we both had massages and I assisted in providing all the ...

Sand Dunes?
Oct 11, 2007 (16 photos)

On my arrival at Mui Ne I headed straight for the famous sand dunes and rock formations. These are something no-one associates with Vietnam, and at times it was like being in a desert- the dunes were endless. As soon as I arrived at the dunes I was ...

Vietnam smells of fish
Oct 8, 2003 (4 photos)

... spoke no English but thats the better alternative to me!) and set of down the road inhaling the fresh sea air. Actually not quite. Mui Ne is beautiful but it has a big downfall - it stinks of fish. Not surprising since theres a big fishing trade here but ...

Beach Bums in Vietnam
Feb 12, 2008 (4 photos)

... a milkshake on the beach. For fellow travelers we recommend: - Munching on BBQ fish while dangling your feet in the sand at Mui Ne Resort - Enjoying the sunset at Pogo Bar (excellent vibe and decent live music) - Of course the sand dunes which Mui ...

Scraps of ideas
Aug 11, 2005

Today we chilled around our beach hut and caught up on our travel journal story, jotting down our trip to date and highlighting moments of woe and those of glory. I'd had my heart set on trying out the latest water sport craze where you surf with a ...

Sand Fly Mui Ne
Aug 11, 2005 (2 photos)

We discovered our favorite beach restaurant here in Mui Ne where most days we scoffed on fresh spring rolls, seafood and our delicacy, egg and prawn soup. We ate here pretty much every lunch time and most evenings (as did everyone else who had tried it ...

Peace and Quiet at Mui Ne Beach
Jun 19, 2006 (10 photos)

... on wheels, that we had become quite accustomed to, and no near death experiences yet - thank goodness!! So, we arrived in Mui Ne at around midday yesterday, dismissing the fact that the sun was at its hottest, we carried our bags 3kms along the busy ...

Laid back
Aug 9, 2005

... open tour bus and headed South again for our next destination stop -Mui Ne famous for its fish sauce. We were expecting Mui Ne to have a fishy smell that would permeate the air all of the time, however it wasn't really that bad and hardly noticeable. We ...

Sand Sledding
Jun 17, 2007

... red, yellow and white dunes, the red canyon and the 'fairy stream'. Looking back on it, i don't know how i convinced myself that Mui Ne was worth visiting, i mean I'd just been to Nha Trang, a really nice beach in 'a happening town', and anyone who did A ...

Sand Dunes and Polluted Beaches
Aug 12, 2005 (15 photos)

... getting covered in red sand which does not brush off. We were here to hopefully sandboard on the famous dunes of Mui Ne. Unfortunately sandboarding was out of the question, but sledding was possible. We were accosted everywhere we walked by people in ...

Mui Ne
Feb 24, 2004

Hi Guys, You can read our update from Vietnam in our entry from Vientiane, Laos Peoples Dem Rep entitled 'Touring Vietnam with the Irish and Rum!'. Cheers, K & S

Luxury on the Beach
Mar 18, 2005 (5 photos)

Staying in an amazing place, Ngoc Suong Resort in Mui Ne. I know, I know, back in 10 days and still no updates about Vietnam. Two excuses. First, the internet (in particular Yahoo) is really slow here. Second, hangin on the beach making top ten ...

Up and away
Aug 23, 2008 (5 photos)

... pulped together to make one of the staple ingredients of every South East Asian meal, fish sauce. Mui Ne is also the kitesurfing capital of Vietnam, it has IKO schools, perfect cross-shore wind conditions that blow a consistent speed, and no ...

Kite Surfing Beach
Jan 17, 2008 (7 photos)

Our next stop, on our way to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), was a small beach town called Mui Ne. Pursuant to the travel book over the past few years this out-of-the-way resort has had a boom in construction, but remains a slow pace town with great seafood and ...

The windy city
Jan 12, 2005 (8 photos)

... down the beach and swimming we head back to the hotel, as the kite surfers get their day started. Mui Ne is the kite surfing capital of Vietnam, for good reason. Around two in the afternoon the wind gets up and perturbs the fat old Russians working on ...

Paradise - short but sweet!
Jan 18, 2005 (3 photos)

From Dalat we headed back to the coast to an absolute haven by the sea called Mui Ne - famous for its multi-coloured sand dunes. We found a bungalow just a stones throw away from the beach - close enough to hear the waves - and spent a FAB afternoon ...

Getting blown
May 18, 2006 (6 photos)

... the south of Thailand we've been Jonesings for some beach time and we hear Viet Nam has some great one's. We'll see. So far Mui Ne has some very windy ones. Turns out, it's more of a kite/windsurfing place than anything else. The beaches are short and ...

May 16 2008
May 18, 2008

... both able to get a bit of sleep, which was a miracle because of the horn-happy driver.  After about 5.5 hours we arrived in Mui Ne.  We first stopped at the travel agencies office along the main area of the road (Mui Ne isn't really a town so ...

Tropical getaway
Jan 9, 2005 (3 photos)

... around the same time we decided we were still on track the bus stopped again and the driver got up and said "okay this stop for Mui Ne." We hauled off our bags, and approached the hotel that is evidently the mid-point of the village, or else paying a ...

May 17 2008
May 19, 2008 (24 photos)

We were rudely woken up this morning at 6 am, by guess who, the noisy ladies from last night!  Jes got out of bed and opened the door just as one was yelling right outside our room and shh-ed her, I think he scared her straight.  We got some ...

May 18 2008
May 19, 2008 (7 photos)

We woke up this morning and went to our included breakfast at the resort.  They had different selections of toast, fruits and cereal.  Nothing too fancy.  We both picked cornflakes, since it's been a while since we have had some cereal.& ...