Mui Ne, a place to come back to for a holiday!!

Trip Start Aug 24, 2008
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Trip End Aug 01, 2009


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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

A note to the reader: I have been playing catch up on our blog. My priority has been to get all the map pins in place with only a short note about each place. Then I have been uploading photos, five at a time to each entry, and I will add to these as time allows. Travelling as a family means that we are busy most of the time, and there is great competition for computer time, so it is difficult to get this done well. I will keep working on it, and my appologies to anyone who wants more...I'm trying....

Mui Ne:

We have a place on the beach, with a pool, all for 30USD. We have had great weather, and this means high, light cloud, so we don't get too burned. The waves here are reasonable in the morning, and get quite scary at times as the day goes on. It is a windsurfers paradise, and the last two days have seen multitudes of them on the water.

Our first day here we went out to see how 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 waves were breaking further out. She was able to body surf with the rest of us on the smaller white water and not risk being tumbled by the breakers. She took charge of telling us which wave to surf and was thrilled by the excitement of it all.

I hate to write about negative things, but sometimes one must. We took a tour today visiting several different sights by jeep. The first stop was to see a "pirate ship". Our driver handed us off to a youngg boy, maybe 10 years old. He led us down a stream that ran a muddy orangy colour. It wasn't until further up stream that I realized why the water was the funny colour. The sand was red! There were fantastic red and white banks of sand along the stream. The boy stopped walking at one point and we had to convince him to take us the rest of the way to the "pirate ship". He then talked about a water fall, 'not so beautiful', but he led us anyway. Once there we learned that it was the end of the road. We could see and hear construction a short distance away, but no pirate ship. I really didn't need to see a pirate ship, but if you tell me I will see one, then please show me one!! The sights were fine but at the end of the trip, we had had enough of being wind-blown in an open jeep!

Tomorrow we leave for Ho Chi Min City, and after the sun and sand that we have seen, I am actually glad
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