Aufwiedersehn Vietnam

We have just returned from Mui Ne and it is our last day in Vietnam. It has been a great part of our trip, the highs and lows have enriched the experience. Mui Ne, our holiday within a holiday, was very worthwhile. It is a long narrow stretch of beach with all the hotels and shops facing onto the main road. We stayed in this lovely quiet and very private place with cute little bungalos running down to the shore and some nice landscaping. Ours was one back from the beach and we could sit and watch the ocean as we ate crepes and mango and dragonfruit fruit salad. We ate plenty of seafood and avoided the sun, while everyone else around us soaked it up although already heavily bronzed. We failed to ride the distance to the sand dunes, which was sad but perhaps it wasn't meant to be. We passed on the windsurfing and kite surfing, as it looked both expensive (the budget is becoming stretched) and very hard work. It was much more peaceful watching from or banana lounges on our private beach. We got plenty of reading and relaxing done, which after all is what we had hoped for.

We will now take up as much of the Vietnamese culture and life that we can in these last hours, and prepare ourselves for the much less touristed, less organised but reputably more friendly Cambodia. We've heard good things! We probably won't be there that long, a few days in Phnom Penh and then off to Siem Reap and the Angkor Temples. Buy this time next week we will return to Bangkok, the last stop of our trip.

On the photo side of things, we unfortunately got a virus on both our camera and IPOD which hasn't affected the files but we wont be able to fix it until we return. So you'll all have wait in anticipation for the wonder that is my photography skills.

See you all soon.