【越南】Day 6: Breakfast at Hotel （酒店早餐） > Ben Thanh Market（槟城市场）> Saigon Square > Seventy Hotel Check Out > Tan Son Nhat International Airport （越南国际机场） > LCCT （马来西亚亚航机场）

Final day of trip, we had free time to do the last shopping and bargaining. We went to Ben Tanh Market to buy Vietnam famous coffee, Trung Nyguyen G7 and some souvenirs. Besides that, we also went to Saigon Square to buy clothes and other stuffs. Around 10:45am, our tour guide will pick us up at Seventy Hotel after check out and transfer us to Tan Son Nhat International Airport by private van 16-seats.

Breakfast at Seventy Hotel (Long Bun + Vegetable Eggs + Ham) + Drink (either coffee, milk, kumquat)

Vietnam's sauce

Bui Vien Street in the morning

Group photo with our tour guide at Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

We appreciated of his excellent services and highly recommended for those who want to travel to Vietnam in group as below:


1. He is patiently answered every single question that I ask thorough email and considered everything from customer point of view. He also help us to arrange the most perfect trip scheduled.

2. He is friendly, loyalty, polite, easily communicate with him because he can speak fluently English.

3. The charges and fees is clearly stated and no hidden charges.

4. No initial deposits as we made 50% of the tour package payment on the first day of our trip and the rest can be made on the last day when we finished the trip.

5. No worry about where to eat as he will recommend and suggest many good either local Vietnamese food restaurant (Seafood, Pho, Banh Cuon etc) or non-local restaurant with reasonable price. After that, he will ask the customer feedback for every meal tastes. Besides that, he also become our translator during food ordering.

6. Private 16-seats van. It is comfortable and we don't felt tired as we need not to walk too much to reach attraction places.

7. Care our safety (remind us to be careful with the handbags, camera & wallet) and teach us how to crossing the road in HCMC and help us group photo shooting as well.

8. Flexible time, not rush, willing to give us more time for the attraction places that we like.

Viet Vacation Travel

 Included in trip packages: 

- All the transportation with private van 16-seats 
- All Private tours in the program 
- All Entrance fees 
- 2 bottles of 500ml mineral water everyday 
- Private English speaking tour guide 
- Pick up and transfer to the airport 
- All accommodation with breakfast (1.5 star hotel) 
- Private boat trip in Mekong river 
- Lunch at the floating restaurant for Mekong trip

Excluded in trip package : 
- Lunch & Dinner
- Personal spending 
- Insurance 
- Other sight seeing 
- Tipping ( 1usd/person/day) 


Other info:
Money

Direct changing RM to VND is quite low and not easily found in Malaysia. It's good if you change RM to USD in Malaysia and change back to VND in Vietnam either at airport money exchanger or gold smith shop near Ben Tanh Market.

Currency exchange on Sep 2013: 1 USD = VND 21,140

Vietnam Note: 
Paper note : VND 500 / VND 1,000 / VND 5,000
Plastic note: VND 10,000 / VND 20,000 / VND 50,000 / VND 100,000 / VND 500,000 

Remind: Don't accept VND 10,000 / VND 20,000 / VND 50,000 / VND 100,000 / VND 500,000 in paper note!




Day 1: Lunch at LCCT （机场午餐） > LCCT （马来西亚亚航机场） > Tan Son Nhat International Airport （越南国际机场） > Seventy Hotel Check In  > Lunch at Pho Hung Restaurant > Fanny Ice cream (Addr: 6A Tran Hung Dao St., Dist 1, HCMC) > The People's Committee Hall （胡志明雕像市政厅）> Ben Thanh Night Market（槟城夜市场） > Dinner at Wrap & Roll

【越南】Day 5: Fairy Stream（仙女溪）> Free Time for Relaxing > Ocean Valley Hotel Check Out > Lunch at Tiem Com Lang Van > Poshanu Cham Towers > 6小时路程往胡志明市(Ho Chi Minh City) > Dinner at Quan Oc (Addr: 179 Nguyen Thuong Hien, F4-Q3) > Seventy Hotel Check In > Ben Thanh Night Market（槟城夜市场）> Lotteria

At about 8:30am, we continued our trip to visit the fairy stream just located not far from breakfast place.

Fairy Stream

Fairy stream is more than 2 kilometers long, belongs to Ham Tien, which is 18 kilometers far away from Phan Thiet center in northeast. The Fairy Stream rises from water in the dunes which are over 6 meters high creates streams weaving on sandy yellow clay. It gradually eroded and becomes hillocks which have strange shapes with the colors red, brown, yellow, white at both sides of the stream. Fairy Stream is a lively special natural picture, is a beauty-spot which is attracting and interesting to tourists coming from Pham Thiet, Binh Thuan.

Fairy Stream Entrance


Walking in the stream was great fun too. I loved barefoot walking as it helps you feel all the different surfaces and textures on your feet.


Strange & unique shapes at one of the side of the stream.



You wouldn't believe how beautiful it is until you walk deep into the stream. I wouldn't say more about this, as I believe the pictures speak for themselves.










Group photos at one side of the Fairy Stream.


Fairy Stream



Random shooting



Unique shapes and formation at the back of us.


Group photo with the bride and groom from Russia.


Take a rest..haha..



It's the end once you see the waterfall.


Could you see the face?

Back to hotel around 10:00am and free time and check out at 11:00am. After check out, our van driver and tour guide picked and fetched us lunch at Tiem Com Lang Van in Phan Thiet before continued our trip to Poshanu Cham Towers.

Poshanu Cham Towers

Once the hallmark of the prosperous Champa Kingdom, which thrived in this region from around the 7th century to 1832, Poshanu Cham Towers are perched on a hilltop with views of Phan Thiet and the distant coastline. On site are two towers in the shape of linga and yoni from the Hindu tradition and dedicated to the fire deity. There is also a temple where the buffalo deity Nandi was worshipped.

LHS: Front view of Poshanu Cham Tower RHS: Back side view of Poshanu Cham Tower


Another Poshanu Cham Tower.


Group Photo at Poshanu Cham Towers



Maybe is Phan Thiet City? Not sure...

Vietnam's traditional handicrafts made by local people.


A lot of Vietnam's traditional handicrafts sold here with reasonable price. Remember, you need to bargain with them to get a little bit discount.

We went back to HCMC after lunch at Tiem Com Lang Van and approximately arrived on 7:00pm. The tour guide directly took us dinner at Quan Oc which located at 179 Nguyen Thuong Hien before did check in at Seventy hotel. 

A lot of motorcyclists can be found at any corner in Vietnam. Unbelievable!


Quan Oc Hoang


Seafood Stall


Seafood (Snails+Clams+Prawn+Oyster etc) that we ordered from the stall. It cost us VND 122,000/pax


Group photo before had our seafood dinner at HCMC.

In short, Red Sand Dunes, White Sand Dunes and Fairy Stream is a MUST VISIT at Mui Ne. To me, Red Sand Dunes and White Sand Dunes are magnificent and definitely worth a visit, especially for sunset and sunrise respectively. 

For me, I preferred barefoot walking up the dunes as I can feel the sandy surface and texture on my feet. It was not as tough as I thought. Feel free to decide whether it's worth your time when you want to travel Vietnam next time after you have a look on many nice photos =) 



Day 6: Breakfast at Hotel （酒店早餐） > Ben Thanh Market（槟城市场）> Saigon Square > Seventy Hotel Check Out > Tan Son Nhat International Airport （越南国际机场） > LCCT （马来西亚亚航机场）

【越南】Day 5: See Sunrise at White Sand Dunes（看日出在白沙丘） > Lotus Lake > Fish Village（小渔村）> Breakfast at Huan KY

As normal, we woke up early morning at about 4:30am while it was still super cold and dark. Our private van picked us up and drove us to White Sand Dunes to see sunrise and Lotus Lake. It took about 50 minutes to reach there. After the van reached sand dunes, we walked together with Mr. Tran Law to sand dunes with barefoot. You could feel the very fine sand with your barefoot which it's hard to explain the feeling. We felt excited and waited for the sun to rise but in the end, the sky was cloudy. Unfortunately, we could not see the sunrise.

Quad bikes for rent

We walked up to White Sand Dunes in early morning at about 5:30am (Vietnam Time).

You can use quad bike to go around White Sand Dunes because the area is too big.

Viewed from the White Sand Dunes

You can see quad bikes everywhere at the dunes.

White sand dunes + sky with cloudy + early morning view

Group photo at White Sand Dunes. 

White sand dunes area is bigger than Red sand dunes.

White sand dunes + sky with cloudy viewed.

Quad Bike

Me & Mr. Tran Law (our tour guide)

Jump style!

Lotus Lake

Flower found in Lotus Lake

Note: Remember to wear a jacket if you are going to see sunrise because it is really chilly and cold in the morning! 

Our tour continued with visiting Mui Ne Fishing Village, at the north end of Mui Ne bay, is about 7km north of Mui Ne Town. We reached at fishing harbor where we can purchase fresh seafood, shellfish etc. on the spot from local vendors. After that, we stopped at the local restaurant for our breakfast.

 We arrived at Mui Ne Fishing Village quit early in the morning after finished our tour at White Sand Dunes. Not so much of colorful fishing boats mooring on the water as maybe it was raining season.

RHS Viewed from Fishing Harbor

 Fishermen sorting out their catch from ship-wharfs.

Fishermen were busy with their stuffs.

 Fishing Harbor

 Fishermen just came back from sea.

Fishermen brought the bucket of fish to Fishing Harbor for sold.

 Two big bucket of FRESH fish!

Local vendors or buyers came to buy fresh seafood and fish.

The best time to visit Mui Ne Fishing Village is in early morning or in late afternoon. You can travel to Mui Ne Fishing Village by car, by motorbike or by bicycle. A leisurely cycling trip in Mui Ne is interesting and can be combined with a visit to the fish sauce village and the Mui Ne Sand Dunes.

After that, we went to Huan KY for breakfast. Vietnam's wantan mee not bad too and serve with local vegetable and herbs together with super duper concentrate coffee with milk.

Huan Ky

 Wantan mee stall. They called wantan mee as Hoanh Thanh Mi.

 Inside of Huan Ky.

 Vietnam's wantan mee.

 Squeeze the lime into wantan mee & additional add-on, chilli.

Local vegetables and herbs. Eat it together with wantan mee. If you don't like local vegetables or hebs, don't try it as it may spoil your taste!

LHS: Before stirred      RHS: After stirred
Can you drink "gaogao" coffee like this!
This is Vietnam people practice when they drink the coffee. No more add water, they just drink like this!

Day 5: Fairy Stream（仙女溪）> Free Time for Relaxing > Ocean Valley Hotel Check Out > Lunch at Huan KY > Poshanu Cham Towers > 6小时路程往胡志明市(Ho Chi Minh City) > Dinner at Quan Oc (Addr: 179 Nguyen Thuong Hien, F4-Q3) > Seventy Hotel Check In > Ben Thanh Night Market（槟城夜市场）> Lotteria