After one night in bustling Saigon, we took a bus northwest to Mui Ne, which is pretty much a beach with a bunch of resorts, bars and restaurants. The place is known to be great for kite-surfing, which we didn't do.
We stayed one night at Thai Hoa ($35), but moved to a more centrally located hotel on the second day. The place was called Ngoc Duy; it was probably the cheapest place in all of Mui Ne, but it was great. We had a big twin room with a seating area outside. Since it was Vietnamese new years, the hotel staff invited us for dinner. Me and Kristine ended up at a table with only Russians who could barely speak English, but we still got along quite well. Actually, almost all the people we met in Mui Ne were Russian, except for this one Swedish guy who lived in Vietnam and sold cosmetics.
The food was great, especially the Corn from the street stalls and my new favorite: Dragon-fruit!
Apart from staying on the beach, we went on a half-day tour with Mui Ne Easy Rider ($10), where we had each our driver and some pretty sweet rides (at least mine was). We went to see the white sand dunes and a lizard farm. Apparently lizards are (due to scarcity) selling for about 400 times as much in restaurants as they did only a couple of years ago. We were invited to have tea with the owner. Since it's considered rude to reject any gifts, we were pretty much rolling out of there due to an excessive intake of cakes, cookies and watermelon seeds.
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