Venue: Mui Ne
Date: 17 August 2009
A view full of sand. Friends asked me if I really was in Vietnam, haha, who would have guessed? This is the Vietnam I know. A magical place.
It was never like anything I have ever seen in my short life… It simply took my breath away. It surely did. When will I ever go to Sahara? It must be a fascinating place!
After “woos and wows”, we were ready for the sand slide. This is the best thing about backpacking, you don’t have to fight with other tourists when you are in some touristic sites. You totally just own the place and you can do whatever you want! The car driver was on the other end of the sand dune, it was just the kid and the three of us (now I really just want to beat him up!).
It was quite steep, you definitely have to be there to witness the whole sand slide thing, it was very… sandy. Haha while watching Po sliding down, I was too busy getting the sand out of my dress. We were all sweating like hell, can you imagine the sands sticking to your body like your second skin? That was how I felt at that time.
Getting back on the sand dune for another round of slide… wasn’t so easy either. The whole thing was very exciting but exhausting at the same time!
Yan wanted to kill the kid (well, we all wanted to in the end)… anyway, it was a real picture of us being roasted under the hot sun!
While we were taking pictures, Po’s got another round of slide done and wow, her super cool model pose! No wonder she’s my best friend :D In the end we wanted to do the final round together… but obviously it was only Po who made it. All I could do was laughing at my own clumsiness and Yan was catching up!
That was when we made our second mistake. We gave up hassling too easily! That FSOB (sorry for my language), he was too greedy, he cheated us money! We paid 10 times more than he deserved. Such an a-hole! If he didn’t lie it would be fine, but! AAAAGH! Will ask for our money back if we ever meet again!
Anyway, after taking a break in the jeep and absorbing water like a sponge, we were ready to see something else again!
I really have to say that Mui Ne is very touristic. Many restaurants, many bars, not many houses, not many stray dogs (our best bet was that they eat dogs) and many tourists.
We rested under a tree on another sand dune (by then we no long were excited about sand dunes), saw a fox-looking dog which was also resting under the shadow. It really was too hot and the dog started digging a hole for a cooler “hideout”. Funny that.
Even the temperature differences were huge between the shadow and right under the sun. The sands were burning hot and we could no longer walk on them, you could even feel the heat with your sandals on!
:) Just a silly picture. Typical Joey Leung!
We had coconuts at this store. Very convenient, some Chinese soap opera was on TV when we were there. Haha it was very funny, the program was dubbed but by only one man’s voice in Vietnamese. Now I see that Hong Kong TV productions are very professional! At least when we dub programs, you can tell whether it was a man or a woman, or a kid talking… but in Vietnam, you’re not that fortunate. Had such a great time in the store, and wah those super juicy fresh delicious cheap coconuts…
Did you see the half-naked man in the picture? Haha, almost as sexy as the Singaporean that we saw in Santosa! HAHAHAHA!
