Mui Ne, Vietnam

We caught a bus from HCMC to the coastal resort town of Mui Ne. The Vietnamese Tourist Board has organised a great bus service. They have Open Bus Tours, a bit like The Kiwi Experience buses in NZ. You buy a ticket with so many stops and then get off where you want and call the company the day before you want to rejoin the bus to the next stop. It is about $22 us from HCMC to Hanoi. This bullock cart was taking sand from the beach to a construction site.
We met Zhi Min from Guangzhou, China. She is a maths teacher and was spending her holidays travelling. We hope to meet up with her at a later stage.
The fishermen use these boats made from bamboo and palms and they are covered with what looks like a resin. The have just one oar.
Mui Ne is famous for fish sauce and it is fermented in these jars. I had a blocked nose and blocked ears while in Mui Ne so I was fortunate not to be able to smell it!

Many tourists like to windsurf here too.

We hired a motorbike and visited some of the sights. There are huge sand dunes and the children sell mats that you an use to slide down the hills.

The beach was very dirty as they do not have an efficient system for disposing of the rubbish and just drop it anywhere and everywhere. Vietnam, like the other Asian countries we have visited is drowning under the Styrofoam and plastic waste they love to use.

The fishing boats are very colourful and at night the horizon is a glow with the lights from the fishing boats. Everywhere people are catching fish and drying it. Every pond, creek, stream, or puddle seems to have fish that they eat!

Trays of dried fish.