Blogs from Vietnam, Asia - page 1337

First impressions of Mui Ne weren't great - we got settled into a guesthouse near to where the bus dropped us off and headed out to get some food shortly later. The problem was that the nearby restaurants didn't seem to have any food. Pretty much everything we ordered was "finished" and what we finally got wasn't great. The following morning we hit the beach which seemed nice at first, but I soon discovered that if you strayed more than a 10m either side of the area right outside the guesthouse the beach was coverred in debris (including a dog's skull). Even so, we had a nice afternoon of reading on the nice part of the beach before heading out for a more successful search for food. There is no town as such in Mui Ne, ... read more

Hi All I'm just back from 2 days of bliss on Whale Island. Since the last time i wrote the group did a long train journey from Hoi An to Nha Trang (10 hours!!). We kept ourselves amused by creating a pub quiz for the rest of the group - Ross and I being the quizmasters - i think we did a pretty good job! We didn't get to stay in Nha Trang for long which was such a shame as it looked so much fun - definitely one of the better places to party (we still managed a quick bucket of cocktails though!) Whale Island is a very small private resort with about 20 or 30 beach bungalows so there were only a few other people there who weren't on our tour. It was bliss ... read more

Well I've moved hotels. In the beginning I was all like "Oh, I'm uncomfortable staying in a place this nice, there's so many poor people in Vietnam, blah blah blah" - but it's amazing how QUICKLY one adjusts to luxury... My budget could only support luxury for two weeks, however. So I've moved to a hotel 2 doors down. I was staying in "The Classic: 2" (or as I liked to think, in a low-intellect, Arnie-inspired-voice-inside-my-head, "Classic: THE SEQUEL"...) Next door to that is The Prince Hotel, which is where I thought I was moving to when a guy I know said he had a friend working at The Prince and he could get me a good price there. He was talking half the price of "THE SEQUEL" and I thought 'ooh, that's good, cause The ... read more

Hello Everybody, It has been a little while since I last wrote. Hopefully this website will work okay and will be easy to manage for both you and me. I am fairly computer illiterate so this is somewhat of an acheivement for me if it works. Right now we are in Mui Ne (pronounced moo-nay) which is in South Vietnam and it is our third day here. It is a nice "beachy" place again and it is a lot nicer than Sihanoukville where we had been staying before in Cambodia.It is a lot cleaner and there are hardly any hawkers (I have only seen two and they didn't even bother me!) Since having last written I turned the big 3-0 and it really was pretty painless. Thank you again for all your e-cards and birthday messages. ... read more

I don't usually like bikes nor find the prospect of riding one exciting. I am not sure why. Usually, it's supposedly cool for a girl to ride a motorcycle, but once we got our bike, I gave tfaduh a small little smile and asked him to go ride around first. "You sure you don't want to try it?" "No, it's okay," I smiled. So I rode behind him, and held on to him looking at all the sights. Somehow it's better for me this way. Later on, I decided to try it out. He gave me a basic run down of the the controls and off I went, reving the engine. Then I crashed into the pavement and nearly ran into a roadside shop. A man ran up to me, and tfaduh followed, concerned. The bike ... read more