Mui Ne - Beach Time.

Dec 4-7, 2013: We took the bus for five hours from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) to Mui Ne. Even though is was a daytime journey, we were in a sleeper bus. It is a little bit cramped on the sides, but being able to stretch out your legs more than makes up fot it!

Mui Ne has 15,000 inhabitants, used to be an isolated stretch of sand, and is now a string of resorts. They are mercifully low-rise, and set in pretty gardens by the sea.

We stayed at the Mui Ne Backpackers right on the beach, and fell asleep and woke up to the sounds of the waves - bliss. The ocean was peaceful in the morning, so the perfect time to go swimming. Around noon the wind picked up, and all the kite surfers came out .

We biked to the original fishing village at the north end of the beach.

and along the narrow streets among the fishermen's homes to the park at the end of the peninsula.

In the evening all the food vendors opened their on-the-sidewalk-restaurants, and you could have BBQ crocodile....

and various types of seafood.

The Vietnamese people have a great sense of humour. The majority of the tourists were from Russia, thus the sign in Russian.

After all the rainy weather in northern Vietnam, it was wonderful with three days of sunshine.