Night @ Phan Thiet

At night time I walked up and down the street amongst the other tourist to take in the local area around my hotel. It's a nice mix of high end waterfront resorts and low end local run shacks, the one thing they have in common is most of them offer freshly caught seafood brought in through the fishing village. Between the Hanoi vodka I kept in my room and all the drinks I had on the strip, the two days turned into a blur of annoying russians and cheep vietnamese food. Heres a couple pictures:

Mui Ne Fishing Village

In an effort to see some of the local tourist attractions, I grabbed a map from the front desk of my hotel listing the top things to see around the area. The options were basically the dunes, the town of Phan Thiet and a fishing village to the east of the tourist strip. I'd seen the town the previous day on my way in, and the dunes were the furthest away so I decided on the fishing village. After getting the price for the local tourist bus which frequents the fishing village (8,000VND), I shopped around for a couple minutes and was able to get a motorbike taxi to take me there for the same rate. 

looking west on the beach

The Road to Phan Thiet

After I went to sleep last night in Phan Rang, I had nightmares about what a whole day spent there could be like. I worried about scenarios like running into the restaurant owner that wanted me to party at his house or bumping into the Russian's who'd shared there rum with me. After a shot of the Hanoi vodka from the night before to calm my nerves, I packed up my stuff in a rush to prepare an escape south toward Phan Thiet. I wrote down the names and addresses of several hotels in Mui Ne in an effort to avoid yesterdays mistake, and made my way through the pouring rain to the front desk to get a cab.

view from my hotel room in Phan Rang