Hai Yen Family Resort

16th May 2010 Lynne........   Unfortunately we have a nasty habit of saying we are going to stay in a place for a set amount of days and then adding to them. It's not usually a problem, that’s what travelling is all about but when you have a ...

... a nice change! We stayed at a place called Hai Yen which was at the end of the main touristy part, heading towards the fishing village. Hai Yen was lovely, air con room was very nice – had cable TV to keep Tom happy and I was delighted with the pool ...

... -fu shit! This was quite entertaining for 10 minutes (yes, this long!). Eventually we found a placid taxi driver who drove us to Hai Yen Hotel where we booked into a room on the first floor. We grabbed some food as we were both starving then decided to ...

... drive & it feels like we are going out more into the country side....much less concrete than Saigon! We are staying at the Hai Yen hotel & our room is on the top balcony overlooking the sea & the pool, its great & the food & ...

... staying with Westerners unless they're married - even if it is a twin bed room!  Turns out to our advantage as the new hotel, Hai Yen has much nicer rooms, including air con and Tv, for just $2 extra. The first sight of the day was the Fairy ...

... i calculated we were in fact nearly half way there! We eventually made it and the grin from ear to ear at the budget resort of hai yen at $18 bucks a night seemed with in reach. Only to have our hearts broken secondes later when we were informed they ...

... it is monsoon season and the driver never took his hand of the horn. I have found a really smart young lady at Vietnam tours, Ms Hai Yen. After a very quick request she has put together a very nice little tour... Sapa in the north, a night on a junk ...

... and went home. The next morning it was another early start for another bus journey, this time to Nha Trang, another coastal resort 3 1/2 hours west of Dalat. The main issue was this morning was all the local residents in our hotel insisting on getting up ...

I've been basking in the sea breeze for the last three nights at a great family-run resort in this sleepy seaside town. Waking up to the conversation of tropical birds and the sound of waves on the strand yards from my room. Local coffee and succulent ...

... but decided we'd hire bikes anyway rather than sit in the bars all day long. We pretty much covered the whole of the resort & ended up cycling round for over 5 hours (thats one way of getting rid of a red wine hangover!!)). We really ...

Unfortunately, it rained when we arrived in Mui Ne.  It's a lovely quite resort so there's not much to do in the rain (other than eating and drinking).  We decided to leave the next day and, of course, it was glorious sunshine after we'd booked ...

... vej i Mui Ne, som foelger stranden rundt i bugten. Vejen er ca. 10 km lang. Saa naar vi gaar ud fra vores hotel/resort, kan vi enten gaa til hoejre eller til venstre.  Vi har ligget ved pool'en, gloet amerikanske serier, laest, spist og sovet. ...

We were finding ourselves missing the coast so were happy to leave bustling Saigon behind for the quiet coastal town of Mui Ne. The area is famed for it's production of fermented fish sauce which you really can smell on your way in. We hopped off the bus ...

Today we got the bus to Mui Ne which has a really nice beach, although when we turned up it started to rain and didn't stop! Hopefully tomorrow will be better and we will be able to do something. So we spent the evening researching, writing in our ...