Mui Ne

Mui Ne is a small town on a peninsula. Here there is a port with thousands of boats, a sweet little market, but also extremely much trash on the streets. The awareness of nature in Vietnam will probably have to wait a few more years, but here it was particularly bad. Mountains of plastic trash everywhere. Such a thing hurts the soul of a bottle-returning German.

But the special thing in Mui Ne is the Mini Sahara. Right behind the town, there is a small desert of only a few square kilometers.

There was also a walkway through a river to Fairy Springs. Here too everything was full of red rocks. Sergio and I had a debate while walking through the river about how much more exciting it is to walk through water that is so muddy that you can't see anything in it. I refused to walk through the water in those places and while Sergio was still lecturing me on how boring I was, a water snake popped out of the river right in front of him and he jumped out of the river saying 'oh shit, a snake!' I laughed so hard. 'I am boring? I guess you are just naive.'

If you love kitesurfing, this is the right place for you. The strong wind on the beaches is also the reason for the dryness of the air.

Special food here: Goat Hot Pot. The soup fondue with goat. Interesting but not really my thing.

Definitely unexpected surprises here. I didn't expect a desert in Vietnam.