Coco Beach Resort, Phan Thiet Hotel

... took ages as the road was one long traffic jam for many miles. I got to Phan Thiet and saw the coulorful fishing boats in the harbour. Mui Ne was a few kms furthere on and very soon we were driving along a beautiful shoreline.

The place I booked was nice but there was no sandy beach outside, only a concrete slope to the water. Decided to go elsewhere. I was ...

... bar det, tillbaka en bra bit men lillkillen cyklade pa som en galning med moppekillarna efter sig.
vi kom ut pa en stor vag som vi korde pa ett tag och sen tog han in pa en liten stig. Hoppade av cykeln och visade att vi skulle hanga med. "NU kommer val moppen bli snodd" tankte vi men ett vattenfall kan manm juinte missa.
Vi gick paen stig ...

... the highest peak in the area to watch the sunset, and were soon joined by an Australian couple (the guy had TONS of energy and we exhausted ourselves watching him run up and down the dunes). It was very beautiful and peaceful, by the time the sun set we were the only ones within eyesight and surrounded by hills and hills of pure white sand. -M

... for? Back to today, after the rice paddies and the traffic petered out we found ourselves going through small villages full of lovely little (and not so little) villas that wouldn't have looked out of place in the south of France frankly. The people here are incredibly friendly, everyone says hi, particularly the children, and they are very smiley and curious. We made very slow progress though, the headwind slowed us right down, I was using 3 or 4 ...

I know, im getting really hopeless at the whole 'keeping this up to date' thing! But lots is happening and so its often difficult to find time! Ok ANYWAY, as I said, Brownie left for Nha Trang on the night of the 7th and so i spent the night in HCMC on my own, wandered around for a bit, and fell asleep in front of a Lindsay Lohan movie, so hardcore i know! The next morning I was up early to catch my bus to the Cu Chi tunnels, which are a 200km ish network of tunnels ...

... the boy told us that it was only a small waterfall and that we should turn back. On the way back, he asked us for money and seemed insulted that we only offered him 5,000 dong. He whined the whole way back, but took the 5,000 dong after I explained that he would soon be getting nothing. In hindsight, I wish I had given him nothing because he didn't even show us what we came to see and his whining didn't add anything to the experience. Our motorcycle ...

... to the fishing town of Mui Ne and then to the Red Sand Dunes. As we neared the Dunes this man came running towards our bike waving at us and Sarah got it into her head that the bike was on fire! - little did we suspect that he was offering to mind our bike for us as we went sandboarding on the dunes, but his attitude was "you do for me I do for you" and since he had a cafe we figured we could get a coke or something after so it seemed a fair deal ...

... kitesurfing capital of Vietnam, it has IKO schools, perfect cross-shore wind conditions that blow a consistent speed, and no cliff faces or sharp rocks for the kitesurfers to slam into in. We finished out last few days in Vietnam on the beach watching about 30 kitesurfers on the water, and planning out how to survive in our next stop, India. Cooper Out Love Dan & Kat

... out to be the biggest feast we had ever seen and I especially enjoyed the live Christmas music. It's funny, at home they play so much Christmas music starting months before that I actually get very sick of it. However this year I really hadn't heard any Christmas music until the party and I really had missed it. The band even played Joy to the World, my favorite song. Amazingly we both had a great evening and were one of the last guests to head back to our room.

... to get to the resort and now we were being told to wait until the next day. Pardon my French but bugger that for a game of soldiers. Cost be damned, I was too tired to go looking for buses and potentially being told the same thing again, especially when we were lugging all of that baggage so I made an executive decision. I wandered outside to the taxi ranks and started bargaining. The train to Phan Thiet was supposed to cost about $5 each but taxis were starting at $100 or $50 ...