Tourism is one of the great hopes of Vietnam. In the next decade, it is expected to be one of the most rapidly growing tourist destinations worldwide. One of its chief advantages is good beaches. The more famous ones are near Nha Trang, but the closest really good one from Saigon is Mui Ne, just past Phan Tiet. It takes just over three hours by car. Here I present some photos from a recent weekend trip.

We stayed in a resort on the main strip, I forget the name, but they are all the same... the cottages run about $30-$50 per night.

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The scene was more hip at some of the neighboring places:

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Then we drove to Mui Ne City, a couple of km down this road:

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Behind the narrow strip of land along the beach, there rise sand dunes:

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Anyway, in a few minutes we arrive in the city:

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Beyond this, there is now a new road:

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Then there are some big new resorts:

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But we decide to go back to the original resort strip, and eat at this Italian place called Autumno del Luna, or something:

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It's already evening when we return to our place.

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Wow, those resorts look NICE and only $30 - $50 per night? Makes me want to go :)

Wow pretty nice. Is Mui Ne near Ba Ria-Vung Tau? It's the only place i could remember that has good beaches since i left saigon more than 12 years ago.

No. This is much nicer than Vung Tau. It's N along the coast, and it's now on the tourist-bus circuit.

Is there any nightclub yet? The last time I travelled there is two years ago and nightlife entertainments consisted of counting stars and walking on the dark beach....really boring :)

Mui Ne is near Phan Thiet isn't it? We stopped there once on our trip to Nha Trang.

Still prefer Nha Trang's emerald green beaches more.

Yes, Mui Ne is 20 kilometres far form Phan Thiet city.

Jaroslaw1 the photos are nice ......I didn't paid much attention to this place. My fat aunt kept talked me into going there.....but I didn't cared...because there were so much in saigon to explore.
the woman is crazy about mui ne........when we met this Korean girl in Dalat and let her tagged along with us, my aunt kept grabbing the Korean girl's arm and told her in vietnamese "may di mui ne chua? may di chua? mui ne dep lam.....bien xanh..." on and on......as if the korean girl understood vietnamese......and she was making faces and hand gesture to describe mui ne to the korean girl...........I was thinking is this woman for real?..........the korean girl had no clue whatsoever but kept nodded her head like "yeah...yeah"

What kind of "yeah....yeah"?

"yeah..yeah ajeunma's homemade kimchi is delicious....." or "yeah...yeah....ma'am,you need to follow that diet" or "yeah...yeah..ne...muahaha....my father and mother are brother and sister...:hammer: "

Sorry stupid joke.