The small beach front town of Mui Ne held a few welcome surprises for us, firstly it was a relatively short 6 hour bus journey for starters and after finding out that De Lat was apparently quite similar to Sapa we decided to stay here for a a few days longer as bad weather from the monsoon stopped our plans to get to Phu Quoc Island.
Rather than feeling sorry for ourselves we decided to see what options there where and we found a really cool place to stay called 'Mellow' which is owned by an ex-pat and is home to a kite surfing school and it was only US$10 (or 7 quid) a night. We then set about exploring the town which is mainly just 1 road running from east to west but has some really nice beach front bars and restaurants selling 750ml bottles of beer for 10000dong (30p) and Pho for 30000dong (1 quid) which was the best Leanne has eaten so far, so we where happy to spend a few hours a day treating ourselves and relaxing.
Alex and Holly joined us in Mui Ne and we decided to join the people in the hostel on a night out which turned out to be a really good night until 1 of the guys who runs the hostel decided to be Mr Big and have an attitude to anyone who wasn't staying at the hostel and seemed to take offence to Alex and Holly joining us at Mellow instead of remaining at the hostel (even though they would have their own room for less at Mellow). Alex wasn't having any of his attitude and let's just say that people who have stayed at the hostel have heard about Alex's legendary story of him standing up to the grumpy hostel manager!
We booked a private jeep tour for the 4 of us to visit the famous white and red Sahara style sand dunes of Mui Ne as well as the fishing village and fairy stream - we had a really good day even if it was too hot! We hired quad bikes at the white dunes and paid for a small 9 year old kid to drive us around and off the dunes and marsh land at break neck speeds! but it was amazing and we all wanted to do it again once it was over.
We then continued our experimental eating by going to a fresh seafood restaurant where you pick the freshly caught seafood out of their tanks and they are cooked and BBQ'd for you. I opted for the fish hotpot but bit off a little bit more than I could chew as it was steaks of river fish with the skin and back bone still attached - but it was still pretty tasty.
We also found an amazing burger place that made all kinds of fresh hand made burgers and even though there was a massive storm and the electricity went off they still managed to cook amazing food with the light from their mobile phones until they got the generator up and running.
We knew that the weather was turning against us so we decided to head for Ho Chi Minh City....
To see our pictures from Mui Ne please click on the link below;
https://picasaweb.google.com/112941139607408893724/MuiNeVietnam6thJune11thJune2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCKjBl-vi1KCimwE#
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