We’ve eaten at this restaurant 3 times in the last two days because the Vietnamese food is too good and cheap not to.
Palm trees and thirty degrees
Mui Ne, Vietnam
There are a lot of Russians popping up in Vietnam, and this beach side resort-strip town (and another a little further North) are the places they tend to hang out with. I was drawn here after a few recommendations and I’m in heaven. Our hostel is beach front, in fact the two hostels we’ve had to stay at (a trip advisors mistake) are both beach front, they’re is an abundance of selection for beach bars to lounge at during the day, and during high season I imagine bars and clubs packed to the brims. The tide comes in very high and strongly here so all the bars are perched up with steps down to the beach. Another one of those towns where it’s hard to grasp the atmosphere but you can see it has potential. Yesterday we went to this Ibiza-esq beach bar (white, white and more white with booths and beach lounges galore). We were the only ones so had the choice of any chair or bean bag or lounge in the house and the bar to ourselves. With a swimming pool in the middle of the what I believe turns into a very happening bar/club in summer, and the beach literally meters from our chairs we lounged for hours and hours in the 34 degree heat and drank a selection of made to order and new cocktails for the owners new menu.
I still haven’t uploaded photos from the War Remnants Museum or Reunification Palace, but I did go and was deeply moved and incredibly interested/ shocked at the all the displays and horrifically graphic exhibitions. Here we have the most insane and amazing bus of my entire life. A rather hung over group boarded this bus in amazement, and after some horrible bus journeys through Cambodia which I left sporting an insanely sore bum, this was heaven. The sleeper bus could not have come at a better time for us all to have our own perfectly reclining chairs. Although we were stuck with the back seats according to our booking and I was shoved in the middle cause it was the seat with the smallest leg room. I still enjoyed sleeping comfortably for a huge portion of the bus trip!
Ho Chi Minh family
A very rich Asian man left the bar and left us this extremely good whiskey (not that I liked it), the boys were absolutely stoked! We “threw some shapes” and danced our feet off…some got a little too into the worm and their moves and Sam had a slight accident leaving him holding his chin for the rest of the night. I actually took more film than photos last night which i’m sure are hilarious, but all in all it was an incredibly amazing and fun night living it up as a backpacker, and actually dressing up/ doing my hair for the first time in 6 weeks!
Kaitlin + Caitlin
I met Caitlin a few nights ago and we recruited her to our ‘family’ as my gal pal. She’s been living in London, and heading home to New Zealand for the first time in 2 years on Monday so we sent her off with a bang. The boys and I were all devastated that she had already done Vietnam North to South, but such a gem of a person ^_^
“Millionaires” for the night
4 million and something dong later (about 230 dollars)…”Dolla dolla bills y’all!” Our wallets are suffering BIG time today!
Our choice for drinks started at about 200,000 dong for a glass of wine (close to $10) so we decided to lash out and treat ourselves with the 250,000 dong cocktails, which is comparable to home prices, but not to Asian standards. Feeling a bit like celebrities, surrounded by pumping beats and flashing lights, this was the best bar we’d been, although we seemed to be the ones having the most fun within this air nightclub.
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