金琦之旅 Amazing Voyage: Vietnam Day 14 : Bouncy Sleeping bus from Da Lat to Mui Ne - Mui Ne Beach

We took the morning Sinh Tourist bus from the Da Lat to Mui Ne this morning. The bus departure time is 7:30am and the journey is 4 hours. When the bus come, I just know that bus is a sleeping type bus. This made me think that we can lay comfortably instead of seating in the narrow seat space. The bus only departed at 8am due to two foreigners took the wrong bus which they think is the bus to go to HCMC.

Banh Mi at the road side, VND20k. Inside is the pork and some vege only

After an hour of journey, we will sleeping quite deep. Suddenly, we heard that is some noise at the rear left wheel. Then the bus drive slowly and I continued to sleep. But then all the people get down when the bus stop. We just knew that the bus need to change to tyre as the rear left type is totally punctured by a tree branch (Maybe, as seen in the photo below). All the passengers sit at a side and watched the people changing the big tyre. This tyre workshop don't have modern machine to pull out the tyre from the rim. They use several lever and was done by 4 person together.

Bus stopped for tyre changing

The bus is very bouncy!

After half hour the tyre changing, we boarded onto the bus. When the bus moved, the bus bounce like a spring when going through the uneven road. As we were sitting at the last row, it bounce even higher which almost hit the top of the bottom seat. Sometimes, the bus bounced even harden that our body was completed on air and come down which make us feel uncomfortable. We even almost got concussion. After half an hour journey traveled in bouncy bus, the bus driver stop it and checked it. After that, the bus still bounce when it moved! Then the bus drove to a nearest workshop to check for it. Hence, this is our best time to take a nap. While I slept not that deep, I heard they were dissembled and assembled to check the tyre. However, the bouncy condition still exist. Hence, we didn't sleep well.

At 1:30pm, the bus stop at a rest station. Even tough there is restaurant for lunch but most of the passengers just bought biscuit, snack or ice cream to cure the hungriness. The bus driver and his companion were still checking the wheel. After 20 minutes, the bus driver said that we can get on the bus. Then the bus didn't bounce at all and it is completed solved by them. We could sleep well. We reached the Mui Ne at 3:30pm. The overall journey took 7.5 hours!

Scenery near to Mui Ne

After checked in the guesthouse just a few meters from the Sinh Tourist office, we went out to find some food. Most of the restaurant are selling expensive meals as this is not a local town but the area is full with resort and hotel. We just had some cheap snack at a stall near a primary school

The double bed room with private bathroom at the 247C/A Guesthouse, VND182.5k per night

Found this stall near to a primary school where many students were having their snack

Sesame rice paper wrapped with ham, vege and egg. VND5k

Cane juice with a lot of ice, VND5k

After that, we were walking along the beach. The beach and sea water is not beautiful at all but there were people swimming and playing on the beach. We were there until sunset.

Mui Ne Beach

A pile of shells

Dead crab and jelly fish can be seen on the beach

Beware of this spiky thing when you walk barefoot on the beach

Sunset

Some fisherman still go out to the sea to catch seafood

For the dinner, I found a cheap seafood restaurant that local usual go there eat. It is Quan Bi Bo which located 1.5km from our guesthouse. Hence, we just went there by our feet.

When we reached the restaurant, there was not much people. However, the service is really good that they gave two glasses even tough we just called one beer and they served some watermelons at the end of our meals. The price here is quite afforable, we spend VND140 for the grilled scallop, sauteed squid, a big bowl or rice and a beer. However, I think that seafood is still expensive as we had the cheapest seafood at Cat Ba Island. The grilled baby squid here cost VND125k while it only cost VND80k with rice at Cat Ba Island.