It was another unnaturally early morning today. Had to wake up at 4:15am to go see the sand dunes. This is because, of course, the sun rises so god damned early. Why can't it hold off for a few hours so the rest of us travelers can get some sleep?

I booked a tour yesterday with Amy, but unfortunately Amy had been puking all night, and didn't want to be more than 10 feet from a toilet, so she wasn't able to join. My jeep was 10 minutes late picking me up - which wouldn't be a problem, were it not for the fact that the sun waits for no one.

sun rises over the mui ne sand dunes

Nevertheless, we made it on time. The sun was a huge orange ball rising over the horizon - very beautiful. The pictures don't do it justice. After that, I went and explored the dunes. Some people tried to slide down the hills on plastic slides they bought from a local man on the way up, but it was more like they were pushing themselves down the mountain. It didn't look like much fun at all. Sleds are meant for snow. 

sand dunes are pretty cool
See? Sand dunes are pretty neat

Since Amy couldn't be there, I decided to make it look like she was:

Amy was here at the Mui Ne sand dunes 
(she wasn't actually though...she had a date with the toilet bowl instead)

The sand dunes were easily the coolest part of the tour. After that, I was taken to a bunch of kinda BS places like a fishing village, and "fairy stream", which is basically just a stream running over sand with some kinda cool stalactite formations. Yawn. (sorry guess I'm getting kinda jaded)

But I did get to see a Vietnamese woman club an eel at the fishing village: 

a vietnamese woman clubs an eel 

...so that was kind of neat.

It was certainly a weird feeling to be done a five-hour tour by 10am. Have been sitting at this wifi cafe ever since, fueled on iced coffees and a strange yogurt drink. Amy has requested chocolate milk so I gotta go get her some. Then probably going to go catch some sleep on the beach today. Need to get my tan ready for Boracay....;) 

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