Tourism in Vietnam is very well organised and customer-focused; we didn’t have to go to some station to catch our bus to Mui Ne. Buses leave from outside various hotels and travel agencies in the backpacker district. The journey to Mui Ne took less than 5 hours, the first half of which was crawling in city then rural traffic. Parts of the second half was definitely dragonfruit country. These large red fruit hang off the end of long droopy cacti/cactuses.
We checked into the Thao Ha hotel which didn’t have beachfront access. But it didn’t matter, the water wasn’t inviting … apart from being very rough, it was brown perhaps due to the suspended sand, but who knows what else it could contain as it seemed to froth a fair bit. The froth was also accummulated along the shore. The condition was a bit unexpected; it could be a seasonal feature.
It was a little disappointing but we’re the type that can have a good time more or less anywhere. Even though we’re not into the adventure sports here (kite surfing being the specialty), we can easily kill two days with R&R (good seafood, rest, cheap massages).
For us Mui Ne is an easy bus ride from Ho Chi Minh and is also a nice detour and stopover on the way to Dalat. While the beaches up at Nha Trang (where we were last year) were far nicer, it wasn’t a feasible stop for our current itinerary.
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- Mui Ne beach. The most inland stripe of sea-foam with a yellow tinge is actually solid; it stays and doesn’t go back out. Eewww!
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- Mui Ne beach. The most inland stripe of sea-foam with a yellow tinge is actually solid; it stays and doesn’t go back out. Eewww!
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- Beach chalets.
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- Mui Ne beach.
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- Kite-boarding school.
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- Beach doesn’t look too bad here; the froth isn’t visible. But the water is not inviting.
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- We ended up eating here a lot as it was extremely good value.
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- Our hotel pool.
