Mui Ne - Vietnam
6/11/05
We left Saigon in the morning, 7:30 am, for Mui Ne, where we arrived around 1 pm. Mui Ne is famous for its sand dunes and its peaceful white sand beach. We had lunch and relaxed walking by the beach the rest of the day. Our hotel was made of little bamboo bungalows by the beach. It was really nice.
We bought a tour to see the dunes the following day.
6/12/05
The bus from the tour picked us up from the hotel quite early, 6:30 am. We had breakfast with the group and departed to visit a fishing village. In our group there was a British guy that also quit his IT work in New York to travel. (For our coworkers: Not just he was an IT guy from NYC , but he was working for ADP that is connected to NYSE)
The fishing village is very very busy ...
... and crowded too.
Their boats are made of straw in shape of bowl.
From there we went to see the dunes. There were a couple of kids already waiting for us, the tourists. They get along, become friends and provide you the board to slide down the dune.
Of course a gratification is expected and they will insist for you to slide down on their board, but they are really nice and smart kids.
To get to the top of the biggest dune we had a good 30-minutes walk in this amazingly beautiful place.
Angie made a friend very quickly and ...
... went down for a run. The sliding is fun but the climb back up is quite an exercise, specially with the sun cooking your brain.
After sliding we moved on to see the red sand canyon ...
... that had also a very nice garden surrounding the trail leading there.
We made 20-minutes break in a restaurant before heading to another site with more dunes.
We were back in time for lunch and we relaxed for the rest of the day.
We left Saigon in the morning, 7:30 am, for Mui Ne, where we arrived around 1 pm. Mui Ne is famous for its sand dunes and its peaceful white sand beach. We had lunch and relaxed walking by the beach the rest of the day. Our hotel was made of little bamboo bungalows by the beach. It was really nice.
We bought a tour to see the dunes the following day.
6/12/05
The bus from the tour picked us up from the hotel quite early, 6:30 am. We had breakfast with the group and departed to visit a fishing village. In our group there was a British guy that also quit his IT work in New York to travel. (For our coworkers: Not just he was an IT guy from NYC , but he was working for ADP that is connected to NYSE)
The fishing village is very very busy ...
... and crowded too.
Their boats are made of straw in shape of bowl.
From there we went to see the dunes. There were a couple of kids already waiting for us, the tourists. They get along, become friends and provide you the board to slide down the dune.
Of course a gratification is expected and they will insist for you to slide down on their board, but they are really nice and smart kids.
To get to the top of the biggest dune we had a good 30-minutes walk in this amazingly beautiful place.
Angie made a friend very quickly and ...
... went down for a run. The sliding is fun but the climb back up is quite an exercise, specially with the sun cooking your brain.
After sliding we moved on to see the red sand canyon ...
... that had also a very nice garden surrounding the trail leading there.
We made 20-minutes break in a restaurant before heading to another site with more dunes.
We were back in time for lunch and we relaxed for the rest of the day.
posted by Adriano and Angie | 5:39 AM
1 Comments:
This is really an amazing journey in Vietnam. Did you ride these nutshell boats ? The desert is magnificent. Flavien.
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