The longest day ever. We got up at 4.30am to get to the white sand dunes near Mui Ne for sunrise. We hired a jeep for $20 with Tim, and head out with a driver who looked uncanningly like Gollum from Lord of the Rings... The dunes were incredible, we were the only peple there when we arrived, and did some sand sledding which was a laugh. But the kid who lent us the sleds and walked there with us then tried to charge us over a dollar each, and to cut a long story short, the 10-year-old tried to start a fight with each of us in turn, before finally accepting a dollar in total and walkig off in a sulk... From there we saw loads of stuff - the 'red canyon' calved out of red sandstone, the red sand dunes, Mui Ne fishing village, and some rather mediocre waterfalls. All this before 9.30am, and when we returned we grabbed a second breakfast, after which Ali and Tim fell asleep together 0n Ali's bed, which was very cute.
At 1.30 we got the bus to Nha Trang, a large port city further up the coast. We arrived in the dark after a rather uncomfortable 5 hour journey, and so aren't really sure what to expect. We went out for a meal in a 'posh' restaurant and had a disgusting 'fish jelly' and then a crab noodle dish. I felt really sick and so washed it down with as much alcohol as I could stomach to try and kill anything dodgy. Tomorrow we're heading to a Vietnamese photographer's gallery, who Ali's been in touch with by e-mail. Looking forward to that, and also potentially doing a bit of scuba diving or fishing, whatever takes our fancy.
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