Terracotta Resort Mui Ne

... thing she had me do was strip to my boxers and lay, face-down on the table. She then covered my midsection with a towel and then reached underneath and snapped off my boxers and flung them across the room before I could register what was going on. All I could think was "Oh God, I don't want one of those kinds of massage!" Then for the next hour, I felt like I was in the ring with Tyson. Needless to say I was unprepared for the kind of deep-tissue massage that I received. After we ...

Bonjour a tous,
apres Ninh Binh et ses paysages ruraux, nous voila partis pour le Sud. Nous avons pris un vol depuis Hanoi jusqu a Nha Trang a 6h du mat (le reveil a 4h n etait pas tellement de mon gout, vous connaissez mon plaisir de dormir le matin). Arrives a Nha Trang, on nous fait comprendre qu on a loupe l open bus de 8h du matin. Les open bus sont des gros bus climatises et bien comfortables qui sillonnent les grandes villes du Vietnam. Le prochain etant a 20h du soir, je ...

Next was Mui Ne, a popular Vietnamese holiday destination, further up the coast. On the surface Mui Ne is just like any other holiday resort. Leafy green palm trees frame clear blue swimming pools flanked with toasted sun bathewrs, some swimming the in ocean only metres away. Renting a moped from a very friendly local, we toured the area to see what we could find, took the best way to explore and got lost.

Not only did we see the ...

Well the 10 hour journey from Cambodia to Vietnam ended up taking 12 hours in total which the extra time was pretty much spent at the border waiting for everyones passports to be stamped etc. Such a long day but it was completely worth it!

Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon) was really fast paced and a little overwhelming at first. So many bikes! Crossing the street took skill... I found it easiest just ...

... developers. It is more than 10km of white sand and coconut trees, bars with wooden verandas opened to the sea, clear waters with rather warm temperatures (like anywhere else in Vietnam), ... The sunsets and sunrises over the dunes are spectacular!! There is not much to see or to do here, so I decide to chill out for a while and relax after so much night clubbing in Nha Trang.

... We walked down the beach and could not find to many openings. Finnally we found one we could move into the next day for ten dollars less than the weird one. The place we are at now is on the beach with a beautifully shaded sandy court yard right out our door. Our first full day we hit the beach at 9 am. We swam, ran along the shore line and drew in the sand for two hours. At 11 we figured our room would be ready for us ...

After promising Anna some beach time, although the beach at Nha Trang was beautiful, we had been advised to visit the small town of Mui Ne for a different beach experience so we cut our two day schedule and headed south. The morning bus to Mui Ne departed from the main roads heading south after about 2 hours and the scenery changed quite radically. Gone were the sweeping rice fields to be replaced by forests of palm trees ...

... rest of the people walking around town with a bandage on the inside of their right calf! Back at Lam Toms that afternoon, the Russians were there again making the most of the cheap beer. There were the usual array of sellers, one who Erica was convinced was a ladyboy wanting to give us massages and very irate when we said no, shell sellers, we'd see them digging for the shells in the sand the next morning! My favourite seller though was the guy who brought his moped on ...

Our plan for Mui Ne was to relax and enjoy the beach and the sunshine for a few days. We had been told that the water in Mui Ne was cleaner than that in Nga Trang and were keen to spend some time swimming! We got a really nice surprise on arriving to find out that Shannon and Mick, a couple we had said goodbye to in Nga Trang had decided at the last minute to spend the night in Mui Ne and were there waiting to get on the bus that dropped ...

Having spent 3 weeks touring some of Asia's busiest cities, we've decided to come away to the seaside at Mui Ne for a bit of 'R and R'. While you wouldn't perhaps expect Vietnam to have beautiful beaches, this place certainly qualifies for the 'package holiday of the future' award - it's very quiet with clean, white, sandy beaches, palm trees and bamboo huts. We're staying at a lovely place called 'Hong Di' run by a very friendly ...