Saigon Muine Resort Phan Thiet

... itouch music player. my mp3 packed itself in a few weeks previous so i've been musicless since! so of course i was delighted with this extravagant pressie! happy days and well done markus!! <br>Spent my birthday visiting the surrounding sand dunes of the town. Spectacular red and white sand dunes awaited us. they were so picturesque, so perfectly created, it looked like a postcard! We read in our guide book that it's fun to sand surf so when we were offered a board we decided to give ...

... us in the oldest jeep in the world, first to the Red Dunes where we did some sand sledging, was awesome but there were thousands of kids who really wanted to do stuff for us and give us sledges and help us use them and then charge us loads for it. Oh well such is the way. Climbing up sand dunes was knackering though, plus we got covered in sand which was particularly painful on my (EW) lower back which was burnt from the day before. Next we ...

... s Day, I later learned from a couple of young women I met, that one of the banks had set it up for their female workers to show off their skills. This being a communist country and everyone being equal and all that, I suppose I was a bit surprised that the women from the bank were showing off their skills in a wonderful, if not rather limited, way; cooking, flower arranging and a girl band with the shortest hottest pants ...

... for a relaxing afternoon on the beach. As we were now 7k out of town we decided to go for a walk and find an internet cafe, found one after 3k, decided to cab it the rest of the way into town. Really nice dinner and more drinks in Jibes, played pool for about 2 hours, Chris kept winning. Thought we would get a cab home but couldn't find one so walked the 7k back to our guesthouse. Really good night though.

... would stay - no need to jump on a motorbike to take us there. It was Christmas Eve and we wondered from hotel to hotel in the rain to be told no room at the inn. The chance of us getting beachfront place wasn't going to happen unless we shed out the big bucks! We ended up at Hoang Vu in a small tiny box room - not too happy we would spend our Christmas in a shoebox. It turned out to be satisfactory for our needs and we really didn't spend too much time outside sleep time ...

... much damage the waves could do, and found out that they can do plenty. They pummelled our bodies to the point where we stagger out of the waves looking for calm water. We weren't disappointed as the pool is between the ocean and our room, and is soothing and cool. Since then we have found the perfect mix of ocean and pool. Becca has preferred the pool to an ocean beating until today when we walked down the beach to a place where the ...

... of beautiful beach serviced by a sketchy dirt road and populated only by fisherman. It was there that they built the lovely Coco Beach Resort. When building they could only hope that the tourists would follow and perhaps a few other resorts to enable the success of their venture. Well, follow they did. Apparently they had the place half full before opening day which was an omen of things to come. Mui Ne is now a massive strip of small resorts that line the beach ...