MuiNe

Trip Start Aug 28, 2005
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Trip End Dec 10, 2005


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Sunday, October 9, 2005

That was 1 mission of a bus ride! Left at 6.30pm on the 7th and arrived in Mui Ne Beach at 12pm on the 8th with a 1.5 hour stop over in Nha Trang. I must have only slept about 3-4 hours in total. Mui Ne beach was rumoured to be a peaceful, beautiful long stretch of white sand beach. It was definatly peaceful but I was disapointed in the beach itself as it was very dirty with rubbish everywhere which dampened its beautiful claim. The water was calm, warm and great for swimming.
As we only had approximatly 24hours here, there wasnt much time to much else than laze on the beach.
We did get talked into waking up at 5am for a sunrise tour in a jeep. Mui Ne is well known in Vietnam for its massive sand dunes so our first stop was to the white sand dune for the sunrise. This white sand dune was pretty cool except for the pestering kids nagging us to buy a sled ride down the sand dunes for a crazy price.
In Vietnam it is so difficult to get away from the people trying to sell you stuff or give them money. Everywhere you go and its starting to wear very thin! "Whats your name?", "Where are you from Miss?", "Where are you going?", "Do you want.....postcards/motobike/water/guesthouse/tigerbalm/clothes/shoes/cigerettes/books and it goes on and on! Very testing for the patience for sure!
Next stop was the Red Canyons. These were cool also. An amazing red coloured sand naturally sculptured into large canyons. The jeep driver stopped and directed us off in the right direction up the path but about 2mins into our sightseeing walk a Vietnamese man who spoke no english joined us and took the lead and was pointing out bits to look at here and there. Once again, we knew he was after money but due to his lack of english (works in his favour) we could not explain that we did not want a guide and surely enough when we came to the end of the walk, he demanded US$4 each! We only paid $5 for the mornings trip so this price is just crazy. It was our turn to play stupid and when he said 4 dollers we said 4,000 dong and gave him the money and walked off back to the jeep. He wasnt all that happy but hey, he was lucky he got any!
More to come.......
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