Hai Yen Family Resort Mui Ne

... eventually arrived at Heip Hoa (in the lonely planet but has recently added mod cons like air con and cable tv). We sacrificed the swimming pool but still had a beach front location (the ocean was the best swimming pool anyway) and with rooms just as nice as sunrise we paid $17 - perfect!<br>Our lovely xe om driver 'Bi' gave us his card and we agreed to ring him for a sand dunes tour in a few days time. We spent the rest of the afternoon chilling on the ...

... conclusion that 12 hours on a soft bed on a bus was more desirable than the same but on a plain wooden bed on the train. A decision we came to appreciate all the more when we later found out that that cheap section of the train (which wasn&#8217;t actually all that cheap anyway) with the hard beds was the pits with cockroaches and all sorts keeping the passengers company. Plus there&#8217;s always a reason for things like this happening. So we headed back to the hotel to pack as our ...

We had a very brief stop here, just 2 nights but it was beautiful, lovely beach with palm trees and pretty quiet. We had intended on learning to kite surf but it turned out to be more expensive than expected, and our trip to the kite shop was interrupted by an ongoing tree-related neighbour's dispute, which was getting rather violent so we sneaked out whilst we could!<br><br>We had ...

... mission of the Marines at the base was to prevent the Northern soldiers from going South on the Ho Chi Minh trail. In the Tet Offensive of 1968 Khe Sanh was used as a decoy to move American forces out of the south while the North targeted Saigon. About 500 US Marines died and 10,000 northern soldiers died during the conflict. Now the Khe Sanh site is coffee and rubber plant plantations. There is a small museum ...

... he returned he was looking slightly more pink, maybe he was embarrassed at how he acted on our first meeting! and so, armed with a nut cracker, i proceeded to wrench limbs, crack bone, and suck flesh. like some neandarthol from 1 million BC! anyway, having been disgusted by her first impressions of my meal brid soon saw the look of delight on my face as i played with / battered my food and decided she too wanted a shot. so i reluctantly gave up one of the massive ...

... br><br>Anyway, so we made our way to Dong Ha... <br><br>We checked into a very nice hotel, hired a moped (sorry mum!) and went exploring! We had a rubbish map of the DMZ but managed to find most of the places we wanted to see. It was weird seeing all the craters and military debris (eg shells, tanks, etc!). There were loads to see but the most impressive (although I'm not sure that's the right way to describe it) was the Truong Son National Cemetery ...

Today Crystal and I planned our day late last night before going to sleep after a long bus ride to Mui Ne and finalized everything over breakfast this morning on the beach. Our guest house is right on the sand. <br>Firstly, it is much too windy and the water very choppy with a strong current to go windsurfing this morning... crossed that thought off.<br>We then decide to rent a moto bike from the guest house and do our own tour of Mui Ne. Our ...