Day 175 (Fri 29 Dec) - Mui Ne
Up at 8.30am to catch our bus. A really big bus and the best bit there was hardly anyone on it so could really stretch out and relax.
We got dropped off at the Northern end of Mui Ne at the Anh Phu hotel. Okay hotel but we really fancied something a little more upmarket for New Years Eve.
We'd made some notes on where we would like to stay so whilst Jo stayed in the bar Sarb traipsed off to find some accommodation.
Sarb walked up the road, in the searing heat, looking at the Lonely Planet map and wondering why he hadn't reached the marked hotels. Closer inspection of the map revealed that the scale of the map was somewhat larger than we were used to; in a nutshell a long walk.
Managed to find a number of the marked hotels, and a number that weren't, but all were full. Sarb traipsed back to base camp to report the findings to Chief.
Chief wasn't satisfied with this turn up so Sarb was turfed once more into the void; this time thankfully on the back of a moped.
Breezed up the road stopping off at all manner of likely places to crash with no luck. Sarb was beginning to feel a trifle desperate until he found a place called the Palmira hotel about 5km south of Jo.
Sarb checked the room. It is basically a self contained chalet. Could easily sleep six people on account of the three double beds!
Sarb jumped back onto the back of his trusty moped and with a smart tap to the back of the skull of the driver we wheeled round and headed back to base.
Jo was most chuffed with the news but mentioned that since the hotel was 5km away and there were no taxis the only option was that we would have to take all our gear on mopeds! Not good! Luckily Sarb had had a rare flash of foresight and arranged for the hotel to send over a taxi. Problem solved!
Checked into our room and went for a walk on the beach. The beach is quite narrow as all the hotel developments end practically in the water. After about a half km of walking up and down sandbags, and watching the daring windsurfers, decided to give the beach a miss and walk along the road. Mui Ne is absolutely full of package tourist type of resorts.
For dinner we had spotted a Good Morning Vietnam so went for pizzas. Not as good as the one in Hoi An and a good deal more expensive.
Headed back to our hotel and had a good nights sleep.
We got dropped off at the Northern end of Mui Ne at the Anh Phu hotel. Okay hotel but we really fancied something a little more upmarket for New Years Eve.
We'd made some notes on where we would like to stay so whilst Jo stayed in the bar Sarb traipsed off to find some accommodation.
Sarb walked up the road, in the searing heat, looking at the Lonely Planet map and wondering why he hadn't reached the marked hotels. Closer inspection of the map revealed that the scale of the map was somewhat larger than we were used to; in a nutshell a long walk.
Managed to find a number of the marked hotels, and a number that weren't, but all were full. Sarb traipsed back to base camp to report the findings to Chief.
Chief wasn't satisfied with this turn up so Sarb was turfed once more into the void; this time thankfully on the back of a moped.
Breezed up the road stopping off at all manner of likely places to crash with no luck. Sarb was beginning to feel a trifle desperate until he found a place called the Palmira hotel about 5km south of Jo.
Sarb checked the room. It is basically a self contained chalet. Could easily sleep six people on account of the three double beds!
Sarb jumped back onto the back of his trusty moped and with a smart tap to the back of the skull of the driver we wheeled round and headed back to base.
Jo was most chuffed with the news but mentioned that since the hotel was 5km away and there were no taxis the only option was that we would have to take all our gear on mopeds! Not good! Luckily Sarb had had a rare flash of foresight and arranged for the hotel to send over a taxi. Problem solved!
Checked into our room and went for a walk on the beach. The beach is quite narrow as all the hotel developments end practically in the water. After about a half km of walking up and down sandbags, and watching the daring windsurfers, decided to give the beach a miss and walk along the road. Mui Ne is absolutely full of package tourist type of resorts.
For dinner we had spotted a Good Morning Vietnam so went for pizzas. Not as good as the one in Hoi An and a good deal more expensive.
Headed back to our hotel and had a good nights sleep.
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12/29/2006 11:29:00 am
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