So where was I? Yes Vietnam, loved chau doc, not so touristy . Saigon was busy thriving hectic noisy pushy bit seedy in places but friendly and fun. Next was Mui Ne. Ok if you kite or wind surf or are a big fat obnoxious Russian . Home of tacky tours; pick up by jeep, late, and old crock to boot. Overheating, something fell off wheel but we survived, extremely annoying horn which was used excessively as was the norm in Nam. Anyway off we go two English two Dutch and us. First stop fairy stream, he points to a path and waits in the jeep. At the start of a walk up a small stream trickling down a valley of red sand, great example of erosion Bob, a crowd of kids our guides, yes right! Woman looks after sandals hmmmm. Oh but what's going on up there in that paddock. You want to ride on an emu, what is that doing there ? Absolutely not. Watched Russian woman with large cleavage hang on for dear life, funny got it on video. So our lad shows us the way upstream, well leads on, there he is up ahead in a hurry. Shows us some crabs, thousands of tiny crabs, watch out deep there, oh thanks that may have got my ankles wet! Ok mister same same up there you pay me now. On you bike son we want to go further and you finish this tour. Begrudgingly we carry on. Half way back still asking for his dosh , eventually I give in and give him a dollar. No more mister. The cheek of it, no that's sufficient says I. Another bigger lad joins in then takes the money of the kid still insisting I give more, I go into a rant which I'm sure he did not understand fully but got the gist . Give that back to him it's not yours, you carry on like this and you will have no tourists wanting to come here you little s***. Eventually kid gets his money but probably never kept it. Then he got the Gaul to casually ask where you from mister, won't print my response. Back at start woman want money for minding our sandals, suffice to say no money exchanged hands but I'm sure the Vietnamese I got was not have a nice day! Back on tour our cheerless jeep driver scares us all to death on the road to ; here fishing village, look down there, 5 mins take photos, ok we go now. Here red sand dunes you have 30 mins I wait here. Walk to dunes (thought jeep tour on dunes meant jeep on dunes may be not) can hire plastic Lino to surf on, declined, or hire a buggy, declined. Walked half way seen enough, ice-cream back at cafe, kids hiring Lino and buggies paid in fags and alcohol not good, flashes of scenes from deer hunter flash into mind. Back to psycho driver, 1 min photo stop at canyon if you can call it that, not so deep dry river bed to me, hurry and I mean hurry to catch sun set over White sand dunes. Quite impressive. Then home a bit shell shocked. Well that was an experience! Unfortunately we booked and paid 3 nights, Tina got sick I got sunstroke restaurants not good, did find 1 ok, lots of roadside cafes along coast road selling overpriced shellfish one had turtles, NOT happy. All in all could have bypassed Mui Ne. Next bus to Dalat will continue landing now.