I guess we should tell you about Mui ne. It's an oasis on the beach, surrounded by sand dunes. The beach is about 7 kms long beautiful white sand and very very quiet. We shacked up in a brand new hotel on the beach with swimming pool complete with water massager (only been opened for 2 weeks). They've got a tourist river to explore, it's a long hike into the dunes to find the source (a spring) but a nice way to spend a few hours wading up it. Climbing the dunes is pretty tricky, one step up, slide 2 steps back, but coming down is done on a sand sledge. The food was amazing, Andy is turning into a fat western pig (and Shirley is catching up!). The most expensive thing on the menu was a bottle of wine for one pound and 50 pence, it could be very easy to live here. We stayed a week (it just disappeared) and moved on to Dalat.
Dalat is in the mountains, very like a French mountain town. It's a major tourist resort, very beautiful, a bit cooler than the coast, a very good place to spend a few days (but don't bother with the toy train ride, it was absolute crap!) The bus journey to and from Dalat was amazing, stunning scenery, hairpin bends, some brand new tarmac, some no tarmac at all.
We are now in Nha Trang and have been here a week (god knows where that went!). This place is the major beach destination for the whole of Vietnam and correspondingly the most expensive part so far. Like Mui ne it has about 11kms of beach which is never crowded, coconut trees for shade and fresh lobster cooked in front of you for lunch, if that's your thing.
This evening we are taking the overnight sleeper bus to Hoi An, will let you know how it goes (it's only 11 hours!!)
Remember we are only doing all this travelling so you can read this crappy blog! (you can thank us later)
Hope everyone is well.
