Ocean Star Resort Phan Thiet

... dollar natten. 12 dollar natten. 10 dollar natten. Vi var nojda med prutningen och tyckte att vi hade hittat ett riktigt kap till overnattning. Men vi tankte att det var val lika bra att kolla resten av hotellena ocksa.<br>Vi gick princip tvars over gatan och hittade genast ett superfint stalle, vi gick till nasta, an battre och nasta battre an bast och tillslut efter ...

... to the white sand dunes, stopping for a couple of photos along the way. The dunes are abouyt 25 km outside the city, and Trey was following us on his motorbike. When we got there we headed up the dunes with our rented pieces of plastic, so that we could slide down the sand. I had sand everywhere. As we sat on top of one of the higher dunes we could see a strommoving in in the distance. It wasnt until the sky turned almost pitch black behind us that it might ...

... the way from Saigon we had been seeing motels and hotels, advertising rooms for rent, so by the time we got here we knew what the Vietnamese sign was for guest house, motel or hotel. There was one as we pulled into town, but we decided we would rather be right in the centre, so we passed it by. By the time we got to the end of town (it's a rather long road with several roads off the main road) we hadn't seen another guest house, so we decided to ...

... some water, and after about half an hour they called me over and we played a bit of cherades until i understood that there was a piece that had 'broken' and that needed replacing. I had no choice but to agree to it and pay them what they wanted, but i later worked out that what they had actually done was this....all that needed doing was to pump the fuel around to get it circulating again and i think they knew this.....despite this they thought ''ok heres a sucker ...

... swim in the lake, but it turned out to be difficult to access and was not very clean, so we declined the offer. On the motorbike ride back to Mui Ne, the clouds cleared up leaving the entire sky an incredible shade of red and orange. I wish we weren't moving at 100km/h so we could have taken a few pictures of one of the nicest sunsets I have seen yet. We arrived back in Mui Ne just after dark and tipped our motorbike tour guides 10,000 dong each ...

... one of these rather than in china and just jumping on a train. We are just off to book our next stop to Dalat, leaving on saturday. xxx Giles: Mum don't panic about the food poisoning, it wasn't anythign like you're imagining! All is fine now with Nurse Bonito watching over me, restricting my diet to water and rice (something I bet she would like to do the entire time to lose my belly, only now she has a reason to do so ...

... as we really had only 24h in Mui Ne before moving on to Nha Trang. We hired a moped again and set off for the famous sand dunes. We pulled up at the nearest set of dunes with the intention of having a quiet sunset with the dunes as the back drop. As soon as we pull up about 50 kids all trying to sell us time on their homemade plastic sledges for sand sliding show up. And they are persistant. We make it halfway up the dunes ...

... formations. Immediately across the street in stark contrast were white sand dunes. Further down the road were very high red sand dunes where children played soccer while waiting for customers to show up, at which time the kids run over to offer a slide down the hill on their slick plastic boards. Jeeps sit on the side of the road for guided sunset tours of the dunes. Aunt Thuan's friend Lang was riding with us in ...

... best to first get the basic surrouding scenery out of the way via the usual motorkike rental system lol. For the first proper time, I had a passenger aboard my bike, Bela who provided wicked company and usefullness as a navigator/back-seat photographer and observor. Sher also kept me at bay with my somewhat wreckless driving habits when carried away. Veering away from the cosy cute beach stretch called Mui Ne, along with the dreadful Dutch duo, we made for the ...