The road to Mui Ne was easy and without major altercations, an almost straight road following the coast, where there are always trucks and buses, which make it a bit more difficult. At one point on the road we saw a truck with a clogged nose and a bus crossed off the road, all in the same picture … Usually the buses in Vietnam do not stop for nothing, so if you’re going to cross with one, make sure that you have enough space, because he is not going to worry … until he meets a truck … of course, there things change …
Before the town of Mui Ne, the road is populated with resorts, restaurants and any attraction or tourist need. The surprise we got was that it was full of Russians !!! even in some places the letters were Cyrillic !!!! very strong!!! the only ones who were not Russians were the few Vietnamese who worked there …
We booked the accommodation through Booking.com, for 150,000 Dongs (about $ 7), but we did not like it, it was very dirty. The next day we got a very cute room at a resort for the same price ($ 7). The resort had a mini beach, but the weather did not go much, it was hot but the day was stormy …
The most curious thing about the Mui Ne area are the sand dunes that surround it. Vast expanses of desert in the middle of a country flooded with water …
We visited Suoi Tien, the stream of the fairies. A stream that reaches the road surrounded by sand dunes. The cauda was very low, down to the ankles, so it is a pleasant walk of a kilometer, approx. The colors of the red sand makes it very colorful, we liked it a lot, despite being full of people up and down …
Then we went to the red sand dunes. It is about hills of red sand, dunes, without vegetation, a desert … the entrance is full of children who rent a plastic for you to slide on it dune down, I tried it, fun … The views from the top of the dunes They are beautiful, according to the angle of vision, you see only sand, it is curious.
Jaume … style … “Watchers of the beach … or rather of the Dune”
And finally we went for a walk around the town of Mui Ne. As we had been alerted by the little assertiveness of the police of the place, we parked the motorcycle outside and we continued walking. Almost arriving we found a path to the beach further north, and we walked to the town.
There we saw fishermen using nets with a very small orifice that destroyed everything, where only the shrimp took advantage, and the rest died in the sand … Other fishermen sailed in the circular boats made of hemp or fiber.
The sands were full of crabs that ran terrified as we approached, and of small starfish, full of them, you could see the trace of their slow movements, very curious.
At the end of the beach we find a series of beach bars with plastic tables on the sand. They had basins with water and live seafood, we started to look at it and without knowing how we were haggling over a one-lobster … we ended up paying 220,000 Dongs (€ 8), a bargain !!!
They brought it to us open and cooked on the grill, it was exquisite, the only downside was that they had used butter to cook it … that mania with butter … they put it on everything! We arrived at the town at night, likewise there is nothing to see, it is quite seedy, or so we thought …
The next day we continued our journey, we loaded the Vietnamese Dynamite and road and blanket !! yes, avoiding crossing the town in case we met the uniformed … On the way we crossed the dunes of white sand, but we did not stop, we looked at them on the motorcycle as well as the whole coast, which in the north we found it beautiful !! !
Highlight that we were ripped off by putting gasoline. At the gas station on the road (look at the map we have included) we stopped to put gasoline. When the kid arrived at the gas station he started running for help to someone else that we could not see.
I asked for 50,000 Dongs and while he was putting gasoline he insisted on filling me, I refused and he insisted, while a girl was leaning on the pump. After a few seconds, the pump made a change of number and it was placed in 50,000, now I recognize that I saw the girl give her where the disused pump hangs, but at the moment I was confused. So I paid and we left …
It had all been very strange, I checked the fuel level of the tank and I checked that it was not where it should be … We had been scammed … Welcome to Vietnam; )
Next stop: Dalat !!! Although not very sure if it will be worth it …