Our bus journey to Mui Ne was not the most comfortable we'd had, but thankfully it was only for five and a half hours. As we approached Mui Ne it was obvious that it was a quiet beach side town and our fears of another Koh Samui were quickly washed away.
As we had made a reservation at Sunshine Beach Resort, our bus was able to drop us off right outside our resort, which saved us the price of a taxi.
We had a beautiful seaview room here with a balcony practically over the sand, it was probably one of the best rooms we had stayed in so far. It was well over our budget, but we felt we deserved a little luxury as this was now hotel number 42 on our travels.
Breakfast was included in the room price, so on our first morning we decided to avoid the eggs and order some cornflakes. When they arrived we realized this was a big mistake as not only were they anemic in colour and pretty bad in taste, they were covered with long life milk! Thankfully there was an endless supply of toast and fruit, so we filled up on this!
We spent 5 nights here and pretty much relaxed all the time were here, which was a good job really, as there wasn't much else to do. It was nice not having to get any early buses and luckily breakfast was served until 10am. The best part of this resort for Clare was that the room included a hairdryer! It's funny how it's the simple things you miss when you are away from home.
Eating in Mui Ne was just as difficult as it was in Saigon, we were amazed at how bad the food was. Yet again the meals were pretty tasteless, totally lacking in flavour and also the people were pretty miserable too. They only seemed pleased to see your money, rather than being warm and welcoming you to their country.
We had a private beach at the resort, for the usage of the residents only, which was a good job really, as it wasn't on the large side! It was extremely windy on the beach every day, which was great for the local kite surfers, but for us it only led to streaming and watery eyes when we tried to catch a few rays. The wind led to the sea being very rough, but this wasn't the only problem, the sand disapeared as soon as you walked into the sea, giving way to shingle and broken shells underfoot. The massive waves coupled with the shingle, all made for a pretty unpleasant attempt at cooling off!
We didn't really enjoy our time here too much, it seems to be a great place if you are a kite surfer and enjoy eating bland food, but unfortunately we are not those people. Our time here did give us ample opportunity to research how best we could reach the north of the country, which is where much of the beautiful countryside happens to be. We discovered that Vietnam is a very hard country to travel around and the roads are far from straight and very slow. It would take a massive 33 hours of buses, including three overnight journeys to travel only 1200km up to the north and this was something we were not prepared to do. Especially as so far we weren't totally enjoying our Vietnam experience.
After spending five nights here and unwilling to get on another overnight bus, we had a bus ticket booked to take us back to Saigon in the morning.
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