Mei Ne - Vietnam

We were taking the last leg of our bus ticket from Nha Trang to Saigon when our bus stopped to drop people off at Mui Ne, and we had to get off to have lunch. This was enough time to decide that it would be fab to stay here, even though our ticket didn't encorporate it, that we could fit it into the itinery, and that it would only cost another US$5 each for a ticket to get us to Saigon. Its lovely here!! Quieter and smaller then Nha Trang. In hindsight we would have preferred to have spent less time in the previous town, and stayed here longer. It's surprising that it doesn't get a better write up in 'the book'. We stayed in a bungalow on the beach for two nights. There was 11 km stretch of beach outside a fishing village. There were heaps of huge resorts, which you had to question whether there was a market for them or not. We bumped into the German nurse and her family (from the bus accident in the previous town). They had decided not to spend any time in Nha Trang because of the accident and had been here for a week. We also bumped into the German guy that was also on the bus and witnessed the whole thing. Nice guys. We walked miles and mile and miles to find a locals seafood restaurant that was in 'the book', and supposed to be great. It was a slight disappointment really. We hired a motorbike (the first time that Ian had dinked me) to find some sand dunes that the area is well known for. Although we didn't actually find 'the dunes', we did find some dunes, which I assume were not as big and magnificant. We also walked up Fairy Springs which is really a stream that goes on for ages, has a very small (small) waterfall at the end, but has some facinating sand formations on one side of the stream. This is when I realised that snakes are attracted to me as we saw two in the water. Surprisingly I was OK with these encounters, and Ian was amazed by my carmness. Ian wanted to learn how to kite board on the water, but hadn't realised that you actually have to do loads of lessons, and unfortunately our two days here was not enough.