Hello family and friends,

How are you? We are now in Mui Ne, 5 hours south of Nha Trang. We are staying a hotel on the beach and enjoying ourselves. We will be staying here until after New Years. We will be taking it slowly up to Thailand because we can only get a 1 month Visa for Thailand and we leave the 14th of February. Life is good. We are working on our tan and meeting some good people. We hope to get some surfing in and thats it. We are off the Ho Chi Min City after and then up the Mekong River to Cambodia. It should be a lot of fun. We are good and relaxing. Life is good.
We have some long bus rides. On our bus ried between Hanoi and Hoi An, we got stop by the cops and I was told by the Vietnamese that it was extortion and that they would not let the bus move until they paid up. We stayed on the bus and watched until everything worked out. It was a long night because the buses are real hard to sleep on and they are made for people that are no more then 5'8" tall. The good thing is that it's really cheap. We usually are brain dead the next days but we just take it easy and go to the beach.

In Hoi An, we had a good X-mas and went shopping for ourselves. We bought a few things and sent them home. We had a quiet X-mas dinner in our room with room service, wine, chocolat and pastries. It was nice. The next day, we left for Nha Trang.

In Nha Trang, we were brain dead from another 12 hour night bus trip so went to find a hotel but then went straight to the beach. We were on the beach for a few hours and burned to a crisp. The sad part about the beach is that it's in the city and you have people trying to sell you things every 5 minutes. The great part is the beach is super long and wide. It was real nice. I spend most of the time body surfing in the waves. It was fun. We only stayed in Nha Trang for a day because we wanted to be staying on the beach.

In Mui Ne, it took us a while to find a place but it's cheap and clean. We also met up with a friend we met on our trip to Sapa. We are staying at the same hotel and will spend New Years together on the beach somewhere. Mui Ne is probably the kite surfing capital of the world. There are about 100 people kite surfing everywhere. We are going to take it easy here before going to the big city.

Talk to you soon,
Happy New Years,
Love
Christian and Karina