On the way down to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Gordon and I spent a night (ish) in Mui Ne, a small beach town set along a single road, about 11Km long.
Our bus arrived at 2am, so it's lucky we had pre-booked a guesthouse. The guest house was a little bungalo on the beach. It was basic, but clean.
We got up early the next morning and booked a jeep tour around the sand dunes. This comprised of a tour over the white dunes, a bit of sand sledging which was the most boring thing I have ever done and a complete waste of money (even though it was only about 50p) It is slow, you get sand everywhere and it is just not a thrill!
After the white dunes we went to a waterfall. A 20 minute walk up a small stream led us to a rather dissapointing waterfall. It was about 3 meters high and not interesting to look at at all! The actual walk to it was really nice though. It is called the Fairy Trail and has some nice red sand dunes along the sides.
Next was on to the Red Canyon, which is a sort of canyon, but the walls are made of sand. Really tightly packed sand, that is almost rock. It looks like rock, but breaks away quite easily.
Last on the tour was a drive to the red dunes, which were pretty similar to the white ones, but red!
As you can probably tell, I wasn't overly impressed with the tour, but it was a fairly fun day out.
The afternoon was spent chilling on the beach and taking in a bit of sun.
Our bus left at 1:30am that night so we had a couple of hours kip and set off for Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon).
On the bus we bumped into a group of English girls (including one guy) that Gordon was at University with.