I didn’t sleep very well so didn’t join
them for the early morning activities but joint them for second breakfast at
9am. The curtains don’t really do anything in this hostel so when the sun rises
about 5.30, that’s what time you wake up. We discovered at breakfast that our
new friends had had pretty much every meal in the popular family restaurant
since they’ve been here and why wouldn’t you when it’s right on the beach front
and is the cheapest place to eat in the whole town. It’s even the cheaper to
buy a bottle of water here than it is in the shop next door to us.
After breakfast we hopped on the bikes and
went to visit fairy springs This place is made of sand and the colours are just
amazing. We trekked through it for about half an hour before finding a waterfall
and then walking back to the bikes.
Our main excursion for the day was to find
the Big Buddha at Ta Cu Mountain. We thought it was closer than it was, after
just over an hours worth of driving and asking many different people for
directions we had arrived! It was a bit more expensive than we thought it was
going to be but seeing as we had now come all this way we obviously had to go
in. It was 120,000 dong for the cable car and then another 20,000 just to enter
the place, so it was only £4. We got in our cable car, which was quite cool as
it took us up and over the mountain.
The views were amazing but we didn’t realise
as we got out of the cable car we still had to walk another 100m or so up to
the Big Buddha. It was quite a good work out and they’re not lying when they
say it’s big! It’s called Thich-Ca-Nhap-Niet-Ban and is 49 metres long and is
the largest reclining Buddha in Vietnam.
When we left here we made the long
journey back to Mui Ne through rush hour traffic and obviously went for dinner
in the popular family restaurant as it was Tyler’s birthday after all!
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