Mui Ne

So here we are, maybe the last day of blogging we get before we are home so ready to read alot?

We are going to Siem Riep tonight on the night bus, but I guess we still have alot to tell you about how we got here.

We said goodbye to the Irish girls heading straight to Saigon and hopped on our bus the hell outa Nha trang headed for what we hear a very lovely place.
The bus only took a few hours, and when we get there, easily found accommodation as the bus drops you right outside on the one road full of guesthouses. I guess alot of Mui ne is all one long road anyway running along the coast and through the main town.

Our hostel was on the beach, we were sharing a room with Fiona and Darragh while Sam, Michael John and Jai shared the family room and Sophie and John in the dorms. We have now been together since Hue.
 We dropped our bags and went to explore. As we stepped out onto the beach I was mesmerized at the amount of kites in the sky over the sea. Mui ne is a very well known area for kite surfing and some people were amazing.

We went next door to a highly recommended (lonely planet) seafood restaurant and had an absolute feast which cost us about 10$ for scallops, red snapper, barracuda and other wonderful sea things.

We went out to a bar far down the road called Pogo- played some more suckers at pool, won money and retired early.

We rented motorbikes the next day to get to the red sand dunes, so we ventured off around 10 and drove 50 ft down the road to play mini golf first. There were overall 10 of us, the loser has to have a shot.Poor Jai.

We jumped back on our bikes, Jai seemed to be struggling a bit as he had already run his bike in the back of Jon's and as we stopped for dinner managed to run over Fiona's toe when he got off the bike and tried to push it while the engine was running, Doesn't work very well when you have to turn the handle to give it gas, the bike went straight into Fiona and dropped on the ground just as the man who rented them to us drove by. Woops. Fiona was fine but Jai's wallet was alot lighter when he returned the bike after an hour and had to pay 1 million dong for damages, although Tom did save the day and brought the price down 1million dong. He jumped on the back of one of ours and we drove straight. Straight along the coast for ages, past the old fishing village where there one million and one fishing boats, straight through the town, round the round about left at the lights, stay to the right and all of a sudden swarmed by kids crowding your motorbike trying to see you a thin little piece of plastic with a string?

The dunes to the left, the kids in front we parked our bikes, paid 50cents for a thin piece of plastic and wondered on up the hill, all the kids followed. This kept everyone busy for ages, playing tag (its really quite difficult to run in sand isn't it). picking them up and twirling them and they carrying our slide to the top of a big hill and telling you the best way to sit to go down fast. Well, sliding down that hill was slower than molasses but still a great day. At the end we bought a coke for some of the kids and drove the same lovely way back. We stopped at the view of the fishing village, admired the boats, took photos and tried making conversation with who seemed to be the loveliest person of all lovely peoples a man with no teeth.

We lost everyone at this point and we had the bikes for another hour so we went past our guesthouse, yes straight again before rounding a corner and seeing the most beautiful sunset. I also bought a green puff ball from a man who was selling, one flavour coconut and the green one I got chicken. It was a very strange thing to eat and the closest thing to chicken it came was in the middle was a quails egg.

So that aside, we went to eat along the sea side at one of the many seafood restaurant's lining the streets. I had the best fried red snapper which has now been appointed my favourite fish.

We went to Pogo once again that night, moved on down the road and walked the 40 minutes it took to get back home. We spent the night on the beach playing word disassociation and the animal game- fun with 10 people and the assistance of the dr.

The next day we had breakfast (we ate breakfast there everyday which always was an omelet, very cheap) and lazed on the beach- we went to Pogo that night and got very drunk for the next day our friends are leaving us for Saigon and Tom Jon and Kelsey are going to stay. We drank the largest sand buckets we have seen yet, and Tom and Jon were playing pool for money while drinking Terminators- which is a glass full of seven different shots and topped up with pineapple. I think this threw off their game a bit. Jon won in the end.

Jai also bet on a game of pool, which came to a sad loss and Jai having to walk the 3km stretch in nothing but his pants. Very interesting.

We went back with everyone to say our goodbyes to Fiona, Darragh, Sophie, Bergen catch the bus to Saigon. Michael and John were supposed to be on the bus as well, but tickets got mixed up and the bus was full. So Jonboy, Tom and I had 2 overnight guests in our new two bed room across the way, not on the beach which was more expensive. I think we paid 3 dollars a night for the room which seemed honest as we had to change rooms once because we were paying extra for air con (oh yes, luxuries) and it wasn't working- so we were upgraded. That day we said goodbye to John and Michael.

And then there were 3. In a room with 3 double beds, a fan, air con and a bigger tv. Our tv exploded one night when we were watching it, we all made mad dashes for outside and the ?bathroom?.(Jon) I went running for the man who was sitting having a beer and a smoke with somelady's in very short shorts and shirts who came to our room.

Apparently after the tv was on fire- Jon ran to get water before thinking that through and Tom picked it up before the fire went out. The man brought us a big screen tv after that.

We went for what I would say quite a romantic meal on a top floor veranda overlooking the streets, with a free welcome drink, a whole bottle of red (Which we have found they always serve chilled.) and the best spring rolls ever we agreed. Full, sleepy and red wine drunk we (well the boys) watched movies while I fell asleep.

To rent a motorbike in Vietnam, its strange- there was a group of men with motorbikes parked outside our hostel who gave them to us, no questions asked, no passport or deposit required, pay at the end and drive off with the bike. Brilliant- we got 2 out and at 5pm attempted to make it to the white sand dunes for sunset- which we hear are much further but in the same direction as the red *(everything is straight right) so we past and carried on- It got dark and we were quite far away from the actual dunes so we pulled over with a wide open sea to our right and our left what looked like white sand to the boys- but looked like a construction site to me.

Now them being all cool and laid back just decide they want to go and climb this hill- oh yea great- leaving worrying ol me cursing my way up behind them. We get to the top only to find a massive quarry or pit and seeing alot of people walking off shift. It was an interesting place- I thought someone was going to come and arrest us but the boys very cooly assured me it was fine- but I still rushed them. Muaahha- It was dark now so we drove slowly back to town for a game of pool.

We stayed for a few more days before we booked our bus to Sai gon. We are already dreading leaving a beach for a city but the Cu Chi tunnels await.

Hue- Mui Ne, One of our favourites thanks to the wicked people we have met.

I guess we all have to leave sometime eh?