Sleeper bus adventure

Our trips always have hiccups, and that’s ok, we know that and we deal with it. This one wasn’t as big as the Visa issue, but it was a hiccup.

It was our time to leave Mui Ne and head to Nha trang. It would be interesting to see how Mui Ne develops over the next 10 years, but I definitely don’t need to go back. The sand dunes were fun but there are better sand dunes elsewhere in the world.

We had the taxi booked, using Bin again as we knew him and it was easy. I didn’t realise that I booked the bus ride departure from Phan Tiet and not Mui Ne, so our 10 min bus ride ended up being 30 min.
We did not get to the bus at the check in time of 9am but we were there for the departure time at 930am, just. Luckily, the bus didn’t show up on time and all was good.

While we were driving , we noticed we were heading back to Mui Ne, and we could have taken the 12pm bus from Mui Ne, and even funnier , it stopped right in front of our hotel. We had an extra few hours of driving than needed before we hit our final destination of Nha Trang. The 4 hour bus ride turned out to be like 8 hours by the time we got to our hotel.

Traveling not only is about what you see but who you meet. We were on a local sleeper bus, and the back of the bus was backpackers from all over. Josh sat next to a very well traveled 17 year old kid from the Ukraine. Conversation was political, educational, and Josh was in his element. The Vietnamese know a little English but we have yet to get into conversations of depth.

From our bus we had to transfer to a smaller bus that took us into the city, as it seems most cities don’t seem to want the big buses in them. We got out of the bus, and without internet (as we used all our data for the day while on the bus) , we weaved in and out of the foot, bike and car traffic for a few streets to get to the Seaesta hotel.

The hotel was great!Baca lagi