Jan 29-30 -Mui Ne, Vietnam

The 29th – A quiet day today. After breakfast, we walked down to the end of the beach in both directions. The beach walk stops due to erosion at both ends but it’s a long walk on the sand. We saw our friends from yesterday, and then took a walk up a high sand dune on the other side of the street. Good views and lots of walking. We swam in the pool after lunch and relaxed. A peaceful day. 

The 30th –

Today we went on a simple tour not too far from our hotel and saw most of the “sites not to miss” of the the area. We saw-

• The Fish Market- many boats and women sorting small catches in fish types
• Walked up the Red Sand dune
• Had an ATV ride up massive  White Sand dunes 
• Learned how to grow dragon fruit
• Walked barefoot for about 75 minutes in the Fairy Stream. 

Sand dunes…

I asked Tam (our guide) if we could see where Dragon Fruit are grown since they an important part of agriculture in this area. It was good timing because a field was near us and he explained the growing process – interesting. Next was our Fairy Steam walk – quite nice.

The Fairy steam walk turned out to be quite stunning in places. We almost made it to the end but didn’t quite finish because Dirk found a snake trying to eat a frog in a little pool right where he was about to step. Snakes are not his friends so we turned around…:)

After our 6am to 10:30am tour we took a nap. That was necessary because our hotel annoyed the heck out of us last night by having a very very loud party that prevented us from sleeping first because of the noise and also while we perseverated over what we’d say to the manager in the morning! We talked to the manager and she apologized – what else can we do. The resort is now empty except for us since Tet week is done – that’s a bit weird but peaceful.