Mui Ne

A big part of coming to Vietnam was to eventually get to this little beach town and do some windsurfing. It is known as one of the best places in the world for the sport. We have been here for two weeks and have found it to be a pretty unique place outside of the water sports.

One of the the first nights in town we went out to dinner to one of many little street side family restaurants that had tanks full of live seafood. There were shrimps, sharks, crabs, lobsters, fish I can't name, scallops, mussels, various clams, and other snails I can't name all alive in the tanks. We ordered the seafood buffet and were amazed at the variety. The bill was 180,000 dong or $9 for everything you see. It was so good we went back another night.

We can't explain how this happend but there were two huge sand dunes in Mui Ne. One was called the red sands and the other the white sands although they were very similar. It was fun walking around them and going sledding on the plastic sheets.

It was really bizarre to see these dunes

If you haven't guessed we really like walking through the fish markets. Being a huge fishng town we had to see the offerings here in Mui Ne one morning. The bay has hundreds of boats in it each day as they fish mostly at night for squid.

The market was on the beach of course

People bought buckets full of seafood and loaded it right on the beach

Sorting squid by size and weighing a basket

Scallop shucking

We rented from a place called Jibes that proved to be a great deal. They only charged us for each half hour we were actually out sailing not for the day.

Our last day there wasn't enough wind for us so we took out the tandem windsurf board called the Gemini. After a rough start we worked together to get a few good runs in to end our stay here in Mui Ne.

 

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