Mui Ne...sucks!!

Up at 6:00 (actually woke up about 5:00), showered, went for breakfast, said goodbye to the restaurant lady, and back to hotel, and checked out. We stayed 9 nights in Nha Trang. Both Court and I really liked it. Court is sad that we're leaving, she doesn't want to leave.

Bus picked us up about 8:15, and we got to Mui Ne beach about 2:00. We had heard lots and lots of good things about Mui Ne, both from people that had been there and the Lonely Planet implies it's good. The bus dropped us off at some rather nice beach bungalows, Bao Thanh Resort, for $6/night, so we took it. It was a fair distance to teh "main" area of Mui Ne, but according to Lonely Planet, $6 is very cheap for Mui Ne, most places will only rent you a tent for $5. The beach is small and dirty (very dirty), and, quite frankly, it's a big dissappointment. The water is really murky, but it is very war.

Court and I took a motorcycle taxi to a restaurant nearer everything else, had lunch, then got a motorcycle tour of Mui Ne and area...the fishing village (really neat seeing all the fishing boats on the bay), then to the sand dunes, then to a strea that created some neat geological formations in the sand, then to a spot where they make salt from the seawater. Quite interesting.

At the sand dunes, when you pull up, you're surrounded by kids trying to sell you sled rides down the dunes. Court and I tried it once, and it's not very exciting. Snow is much better.

Back to the bungalows, and lounged and talked about what to do. We had supper, then about 8:00 decided to see if there was any nightlife in Mui Ne, and started walking towards the main resort area. We walked and walked and walked, finally a motorcycle taxi pulled up and we told him we wanted to go to the Mui Ne Sailing Club, but he took us way past the Sailing Club, then we had a big discussion with him, and another motorcycle taxi, and a security guard at the resort we actually stopped at. We were trying to show them on the Lonely Planet map, finally about 10 minutes later, he figures out where we want to go. He then takes us back to the Sailing Club. It was DEAD, hardly anyone there, so we started our long trek back to our bungalows, stopped at the Hot Rock Bar for a drink, as there were a few people there, then continued walking. And we walked and walked and walked, and there's no motorcycle taxi's in sight. Finally, when we're only about half a kilometre from our place, a taxi pulls up, but we tell him no thanks. We walked a good 8 or 9 km tonight. Got back about 10:30. Lonely Planet says Mui Ne is easily walkable, but it isn't. The resort area stretches for about 10km.

We decided to get a bus to Ho Chi Minh City tomorrow.