Mui Nei & Dalat

After leaving Ho Chi Minh City, I took a bus northeast to Mui Nei, a tourist strip of a town on the ocean. On the way I met two German guys. We quickly became friends and hung out together during our time in Mui Nei.

One awesome attraction in Mui Nei are the sand dunes outside of the city. Renting motorbikes, we cruised over to the White Sand Dune, a vast dune resembling something out of the Sahara Desert. The rest of our time there was spent relaxing on the beach and eating a variety of Vietnamese and Indian foods.

After Mui Nei, the two Germans and I took the bus to Dalat, a city located in the mountains. Dalat is named "Little Paris" with beautiful winding streets, hundreds of cafes, and much welcomed cooler temperatures. Our days in Dalat were spent drinking lots of wonderful coffee in its many cafes, eating dozens of banh mi's (Vietnamese sandwich on a baguette), and going on a canyoning tour in the nearby river. The canyoning was truly awesome. We belayed and swam down waterfalls and jumped off an 11 meter high cliff into the water. A big adrenaline rush of a day.