Mui Ne Vietnam 2 Dec 2010
Hired a Scooter and went for a bit of an explore today. Managed to negotiate the admittedly fairly low key traffic of Mui Ne Village (even if he did keep forgetting that you drive on the right side of the road here). I've ridden a Motorcycle in India and Bali but I wouldn't tackle Saigon or any other bigger City here. It's nuts (and they drive on the wrong side of the road - what is with that?).
We found the more windward coast on the other side of the Village with lots of resorts and Windsurfing Camps. Can see why this place is famous for Windsurfing, the wind is crazy strong. Plenty of keen surfers kiting up and getting amongst it.
Windsurfers kitting up in Big Wind
Spent the rest of the day planning the rest of our time here. We've had enough beaching and relaxation to last us to Thailand. We are off to Nha Trang on Saturday for a quick look (it's the next popular beach town along the coast) then we head to DaNang from where we'll visit Hoi An and Hue. After than we'll fly to Hanoi and make a base to get to Ha Long Bay. All that over the next 18 days then it's bye bye Vietnam and off to Bangkok and Krabi.
The Agoda Website rules for booking accom here in Asia. I was using tripadvisor.com which includes it in the search but Agoda was always the cheapest and their website is much better than the Trip Advisor one. We are able to book 3 star Hotels in all the places we are visiting for around $30 night. Strong Aus $ helps. There are much cheaper alternatives but in the 3 star places you get Wireless Internet, Cable TV, free Breakfast that kind of thing (but still no coffee service in the rooms :-().
Decided to fly the long legs between Nha Trang / DaNang and DaNang / Hanoi. Internal flights are between $60 & $80 and although the Bus is much cheaper it's 1 hour in the air versus 10 or so on the road so it's a no contest for me.
Tomorrow is washing, getting organised day and then hit the road Saturday!
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