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Should You Hassle Visiting The Mui Ne Sand Dunes In Vietnam?

Should You Hassle Visiting The Mui Ne Sand Dunes In Vietnam?

Are the Mui Ne sand dunes a place for a spectacular trip right into a wonder of nature? Or are they just a cheesy vacationer trap? Read on to discover the professionals and cons of visiting the sand dunes in Mui Ne.


Mui Ne, Vietnam used to be a quiet fishing village about 200 km east of Saigon. Now it is a bustling beach resort, which attracts Vietnamese weekenders from Ho Chi Minh City, Russian, Korean, and Chinese tourist, and some backpackers on the Vietnam Open Bus Tour trail.

The opposite big vacationer activity in Mui Ne is a Mui Ne sand dunes tour.

There are two units of Mui Ne dunes: the white sand dunes and the red sand dunes. You possibly can in all probability guess what color every of them is!

The white sand dunes Mui Ne are an unlimited expanse of white sand, sculpted into rolling dunes by the ever-changing winds.

The red dunes, regardless of their hanging color, are less impressive. Families with younger kids will enjoy the probability to fling themselves down the red dunes on plastic toboggans though.

Most individuals visit on a bunch tour arranged at their Mui Ne hostel or hotel in Mui Ne and we did the same. However, as we found out, we might probably have enjoyed the Mui Ne sand dunes if we had chosen differently.

Read on to search out out…

Take a Private mui ne red sand dunes tour Ne Tour
For the very best experience of the sand dunes, don’t book into a group jeep tour with all the other tourists. In case you do, you’ll be caught on another person’s schedule and end up either ready or feeling rushed (or both). Our tour started with 20 minutes sitting by the side of the road in Mui Ne — before sunrise — waiting for we-know-not-what.

The wait meant that the driver careened along the roadmethods and at dangerously high speeds to get us to the dunes for sunrise. We survived, just, however we also missed sunrise by about 20 minutes!

Later, we sat for half an hour at the end of every tour cease, ready for a couple who decided to disregard the set assembly time and roll in every time they felt like it. Super annoying!


Skip Sunrise & Sunset at the Mui Ne Sand Dunes
Some travellers swear by their sunrise travel experiences. At touristy places like Angkor Wat, Mount Bromo, and the Mui Ne sand dunes, everyone feels compelled to collect at these appointed occasions to look at the sun do the same thing it does every single day.

Yes, you get stunning light and dramatic pictures. But you also get thrown together with hordes of other tourists who fully highjack and detract from the experience.

I’d somewhat have a better experience and worse pictures!

(I know that attitude is why we don’t have one million followers on Instagram nevertheless it’s true nonetheless).

Arrive about an hour after sunrise, when all of the early vacationers have gone dwelling, and you get some of the world’s most impressive monuments to yourself. Despite skipping sunrise, we think our photographs in each Angkor Wat and Mount Bromo turned our fairly well!

Don’t Destroy the Dunes
A tour to the white sand dunes solely prices just a few dollars but what no one tells you is that if you arrive at the dunes, just earlier than sunrise, you’ll must pay an additional $10 for a Jeep to drive you across the dunes to the perfect sunrise-viewing spot. In case you like, it's also possible to hire a 4-wheel ATV to rip up the dunes.

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