20 December, 2012

Travel Diary Mui Ne Last day

after some considerable deliberation we decided it was time to move on from Mui Ne the coastal town around 4-6 hours drive from Saigon. I think we started becoming a little restless being in this town for exactly a week. you have to hire a vehicle (scooter) for doing anything, you have to go to the restaurants because there was no supermarkets or places where you could buy a group of food for a few days. It was though a little sad leaving the place as i had some quality time to practice my music, make some cool filming, and really think about some cool painting ideas, and just to have some peace and quiet..it was also really a great experience riding through the coastal fishing village as it gave you a sense of how the rural people live there lives.On the last day we decided to try and work out the buses back to Saigon as i had wanted to come back and try to explore more in Saigon. After going to the bus company almost directly across from our hotel we soon realised that with very little ease we were on the bus and on another 6 hour bus ride.  Before we left we had talked about visiting one of the main attractions in Mui Ne which was called to Fairy Stream. we had tried a few times to find it while staying in Mui Ne but not to much luck,  but upon walking around the grounds of the hotel area we found a back gate that lead straight onto the Fairy stream.  This was one of the better highlights of this trip.  It was a 2o minute walk one way through a stream that  just covered your feet, all up the sides of this were stalagmite type structures.  At the end of this was a small waterfall, all in all this was a really beautiful walk. we had tried to find area of the beach so we could go for a walk in the main place we were staying and all the beaches were private and individually guarded by the hotels and resorts.. this was one thing i did not like.

The local people were quite friendly, and i found if i smiled straight away i would always get a nice reaction from people in general. some real highlight were going through some of the really smaller streets on the tip of Mui Ne, on one day the 16th December 2012 we borrowed a scooter as this was my birthday and this is what i wanted to do, we rode to the furthest point in the region, passing the Small Sahara and trying to reach the tip of the island area, there was a few side ally dirt road streets, i decided to take a small adventure off the beaten track, there was a group of boys playing soccer in an abandoned area, the kids all smiled and waived, also too did the little kids that were with there parents.they would smile and say hello. the road led to an old power station so we had to turn around and go back. it was a great insight to this small community and was defiantly worth while.

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