Mui Ne

Before I jabber on about Mui Ne, here’s a word about traveling:

It’s great. Every day is a different adventure, you are meeting so many new people, from so many different backgrounds and with different nationalities.

I love the political debates when you’re drunk at 2 in the morning (of course talking about Brexit or Trump…), the free beer, dirt cheap food and freedom. It’s great how, even if you’re alone, you’re not really alone. You’re always meeting people and chatting about a tour or the best places to visit. It connects people. Everyone’s friendly and just genuinely nice.

It’s also great when you’ve finished your day and you’re picking sand out of your hair or just “washing” in the sea. Best of all there’s, no one to tell you to change your underwear or wash your clothes ;).

Onto Mui Ne

The hostel I stayed at had a couple of cool pools (in the posh part) and beer pong all for just $5/ night. It was pretty sweet. I chilled at the beach most of the afternoon I arrived and walked around Mui Ne in the evening. I picked up some ‘banana, shrimp and chilli spring rolls’ for dinner, they were so good despite the odd combination!

My first full day in Mui Ne started by waking up at 3:45am! It was time to see the sunrise over the sand dunes and partake in a little “sand dune surfing”. Waking up at 3:45 was a killer, the sunset was lovely but the surfing was a letdown.

We then went to this fishing village down by the sea. There were dead fish everywhere. It was like a horror film but instead of dead bodies… you know… dead fish. The village people (not the band) were just picking handfuls of shrimp and putting them in bowls, cracking shells of crabs, and chucking eels in barrels to be sold. It was weird.

The fairy stream was wicked. walking up a sandy shallow stream with these lovely cliff gorges. Writing about it doesn’t seem so cool, but it was.

 

 

Later that day, I slept on a sun lounger by the pool, had a little swim just before heading to an Indian restaurant and then to Dragon Bar.

One Last Thing About Nha Trang (The Last Place)

I spent a good couple of hours walking around a market, with a fresh open coconut.

While I walked through what can only be described as a jumble sale of everything; animals, souvenirs, fruit, veg, “real” gold etc. One thing I noticed was the poor conditions of the animals. I mean they are treated bad here as standard, but the market was something else. There were bags of live snakes, cramped buckets of eels, and worst of all were the chickens. They were all tied up, chirping in pain on a pile of each other.

Working While Traveling

Even though I’m traveling, I’m sill finding it quite easy to put in about 2/ 3 hours of good, solid work a day. Lifting Times is going well and it’s growing :). Have you liked it on Facebook yet? You can follow the link on Facebook. In some places the WiFi is absolutely shit, but you can always find a cafe.

Also, should you need a website or know anyone that does, do let me know. You can head over to Prystine Web Design but make sure you earn yourself £50 here with every referral.