I. Traveling to Mui Ne by motorbike
Traveling to Mui Ne by motorbike is a unique form of travel for those who want a dusty trip. Let's see what's so attractive about this form of tourism.
1. Reasons for choosing to travel to Mui Ne by motorbike
Mui Ne is a strait area belonging to Phan Thiet city. The name Mui Ne comes from the fact that fishermen often come here to take refuge when they encounter storms. ''Mui'' is the tip of land protruding from the mainland, ''Nê'' is to avoid or escape from storms.
Traveling to Mui Ne by motorbike will bring visitors many interesting experiences. With a trip in this unique form, you can freely enjoy many different amenities such as resting, playing, taking photos and admiring the beautiful natural landscape without having to be too strict about your lifestyle. Time is like going on tour.
You will have the opportunity to ride a motorbike on a straight rubber road more than 5km long, sit back and enjoy the cool breeze under the shade of green trees.
Traveling to Mui Ne by motorbike will bring you many interesting experiences
2.What season should you travel to Mui Ne?
The weather in Mui Ne and Phan Thiet is often hot and dry all year round with an average temperature of about 27 degrees Celsius, so it is almost always suitable for you to travel to Mui Ne. The time when Mui Ne is said to have the most ideal waves is from August to December every year, the most pleasant wind is from November to April the following year. However, the most suitable time to go sightseeing in Mui Ne is June. If you go swimming, you should avoid July and August because this is the red algae season, making the sea water not clear.
June is said to be the best time to travel to Mui Ne
3. Things to prepare before traveling to Mui Ne by motorbike
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The luggage you need to carry should generally be as neat, simple and light as possible, avoiding carrying bulky objects that hinder your travel process.
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Personal items that cannot be burned such as towels, mirrors, makeup (for women), swimwear or beachwear... In particular, the weather in Mui Ne is quite hot so remember to bring a hat and shoes. bata.
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Bring your wallet, ATM card and important documents for easy hotel check-in, along with vehicle documents so visitors can easily travel on the road.
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Mui Ne has many beautiful scenes, so don't forget to bring your camera, phone and specialized tools to get the best photos.
Things to prepare for a trip to Mui Ne
4.Check your motorbike before going on a road trip
Before starting your trip to Mui Ne by motorbike, you should take your car for a complete maintenance, or you can check it yourself at home if you don't have the conditions.
Pay attention to carefully checking the brakes, tire wear, changing the engine oil... At the same time, check the headlights, rear lights and brake lights to see if they still work. You should also bring a basic set of car repair tools to keep in the trunk in case of unfortunate events.
On the way, there may be very long stretches where you cannot find a gas station, so be sure to fill up your gas tank when passing each station, or you can bring a 1.5L bottle to buy gas when needed.
You should bring a raincoat, do not bring a batwing raincoat on the road because it does not protect well from wind and rain, but also makes driving more difficult.
Remember to check your motorbike carefully before your trip
5.Some hotels in Mui Ne are for backpackers
Accommodation services in Mui Ne are quite diverse. If you are a backpacker, you should stay at homestays and some cheap motels. Here are some cheap motels and homestays that Cattour would like to introduce to you:
+ Mui Ne Backpacker Village: No. 137 Nguyen Dinh Chieu
+ The Happy Ride Homestay: Mui Ne, Phan Thiet
+ Mui Ne Ocean House: No. 177 Nguyen Dinh Chieu
+ Mui Ne Garden: No. 69 Nguyen Dinh Chieu
+ Old Mui Ne Cafe Hostel: No. 179 Nguyen Dinh Chieu
Choose a suitable homestay or hotel for your Mui Ne trip
6.Experience traveling to Mui Ne by motorbike
There are many ways to count Mui Ne, which is the coastal road of Mui Ne, but the route that backpackers often take is to follow Highway 1A because this highway has a very clear path, just go straight. Then you can go to Phan Thiet. However, there are also some people who do not like this road very much because there is a lot of traffic, especially North-South passenger cars and trucks, a lot of dust and smoke and no beautiful roadside scenery to enjoy along the way.
The second way is to follow Highway 5, the distance will be 25 - 30km shorter than the first way. With this second way, you go from Ho Chi Minh City, via Cat Lai ferry, to Long Thanh and then to Ba Ria. You continue going straight to a large vortex that will have very clear signs. Remember to pay attention to refueling because An Loc gas station is the last place to fill up, the next station will be 60km away.
If starting from Hanoi, traveling to Mui Ne by motorbike is quite difficult and time-consuming. So you should choose to fly to Cam Ranh, then rent a taxi to Mui Ne, then rent a motorbike and explore Mui Ne.
See more: https://muinetravel.com.vn/vn/top-8-don-vi-cho-thue-xe-may-uy-tin-tot-nhat-phan-thiet-mui-ne-hien-nay
The sea route to Mui Ne is loved and chosen by many backpackers
7.Some beautiful places to travel to Mui Ne by motorbike
+ Hon Rom Beach: one of the most wonderful tourist destinations of Mui Ne, is the name of a small, still wild mountain located in Long Son hamlet, Mui Ne. Hon Rom is considered a beautiful island located near the shore with a beach stretching up to 17km, clear blue sea water, calm waves and no reefs. On the southwest bank of Hon Rom is a beach with a beautiful stretch of white sand, while on the east bank there are rocks with many different shapes. Coming to Hon Rom, in addition to swimming, you can also challenge yourself with interesting activities such as sand skiing, jet skiing... And then sit on the sandy shore to enjoy fresh seafood and admire the wonderful sunset. Pretty.
Hon Rom Beach is the most wonderful tourist destination of Mui Ne
+ Suoi Tien: is a small stream right next to Hon Rom, favored by tourists as a "fairyland" place. The space here is red from grinding sand, with thousands of bulging sand stalactites pointing straight into the sky like tower tops. Looking down from above, this area looks like a forgotten castle, enchantingly beautiful, especially in the evenings.
Fairy Stream in Mui Ne
+ Mui Ne fishing village: a peaceful fishing village nestled on Huynh Thuc Khang street, surrounded by rows of tall coconut trees. Right at the entrance of the village is the scene of hundreds of colorful fishing boats anchored by the wharf. Not far from the port is a small, colorful market surrounded by peaceful melon rows.
Peaceful fishing village with colorful fishing boats
+ Mui Ne rapids: rocky rapids are places with many rocky headlands jutting into the sea to welcome big waves and sea breezes, creating an extremely beautiful landscape. Alternating are long sandy beaches and small sandy beaches, charming scenery. At the top there is Ba Vang temple and at the end of the beach is Mr. Thach Long's mausoleum.
Mui Ne rocky rapids
+ Mui Ne Bay Sand Dunes: this is like a precious gift that nature has bestowed on Binh Thuan. The sand on the ground often changes shape according to the direction of the wind, so it is called Bay sand dunes. Every day, sand dunes have different shapes, that's why people always want to explore without getting bored. You can have fun here, sandboarding with rented skateboards right at the tourist destination, riding off-road motorbikes on the sand and taking lots of beautiful photos to keep or share with friends.
Save many beautiful photos here
+ Some locations around Mui Ne such as: the most beautiful coastal road of Mui Ne - Bau Trang - Phan Ri Cua in Vietnam, Ong Dia rocky beach, Cham tower, Ong Hoang pavilion, Doi Duong beach in Mui Ne.
8.What's delicious to eat when traveling to Mui Ne?
In addition to typical seafood of the sea, Mui Ne cuisine is also very rich and attractive, not to be missed with the following extremely unique dishes:
+ Fish cake noodle soup: simple but nutritious dish, served with bread to dip the noodle soup
The dish is very simple but nutritious
+ Shrimp and meat tapioca cake: a long-standing dish in Binh Thuan with an unforgettable aromatic flavor, tourists coming here often find this dish to enjoy.
Shrimp and meat tapioca cake has been around for a long time
+ Seafood salad: salad made from apricot fish and spiny snails served with a variety of raw vegetables, vermicelli and a very special dipping sauce.
Delicious fresh seafood salad
+ Mui Ne chit fish rolls: chit fish meat is processed into spring rolls with only cassava as an additive, then wrapped in rice paper. This dish is delicious served with peanut dipping sauce, basil, lettuce and fish mint.
+ Banh Can: cake made from rice flour, poured into small molds and baked until cooked, then put on plates in pairs with very attractive chopped fried onions.
+ Thunderstorm: the specialty of the sand dunes is thunderstorms with fragrant, sweet, and firm meat. Thunderstorms are processed into many different dishes such as grilled thunderstorms, thunderstorm rolls, thunderstorm porridge, thunderstorm salad... every dish is attractive.
Thunderstorms in Mui Ne have fragrant, firm and very sweet meat
+ Rice paper with fish sauce: is a dish that can be found on any street in Phan Thiet. The cake is placed on a charcoal stove and added with shrimp, quail eggs and spices and then grilled very attractively.
Attractive fish sauce rice paper
II. Travel to Mui Ne 2 days 1 night
Day 01: Saigon – Mui Ne – Hon Rom
6:00 am: depart from Saigon and go straight to Mui Ne following the 2 routes above, depending on your choice.
11:00 a.m.: Arrive in Mui Ne, rent a homestay or hostel to store your things, rest and have lunch.
After taking a short lunch break, in the afternoon you will start to visit Tien stream, experience interesting games at Cat Bay hill and then return to Mui Ne rapids to visit Mui Ne fishing village and swim at Hon Rom beach. Watch the sunset at sea.
Walk around Tien stream
Evening: enjoy seafood at the seafood area on Mui Ne embankment, walk around Hon Rom beach and return to the hotel to rest. Or if you like, you can choose to go to a bar in Mui Ne to have fun.
Day 02: Mui Ne - Ong Dia rocky beach - Cham tower - Ong Hoang tower - Saigon
Morning: get up early to catch the sunrise on the beach and swim in Straw beach. Then return to the hotel to check out and start visiting places around Mui Ne on the way back to Saigon.
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Visit Ong Dia rock beach.
Ong Dia rock beach
Noon: rest and lunch.
Afternoon: visit Cham tower and Mr. Hoang's palace.
Departure for Saigon at 2:00 p.m. and expected to arrive in Saigon at 5:00 p.m.
End of Mui Ne 2 days 1 night trip.
III. Travel to Mui Ne 3 days 2 nights
If you choose to travel to Mui Ne for 2 days and 1 night on the weekend, it will be quite tiring and dangerous because the Saigon - Phan Thiet road has many bad roads, you will have to focus on driving without going out much. So to be more relaxed and safe, you can refer to the following 3-day, 2-night Mui Ne backpacking itinerary.
Day 01: Hon Rom
Depart for Mui Ne.
At 12:00, arrive at Song Huong Hotel to check in and put your belongings away. You can have lunch right at the hotel because this hotel has a restaurant. As for the food at this hotel, it is considered quite delicious and suitable for your budget, only 700k for 6 people including food, drinks, seafood, shrimp, squid... Especially the seafood dish. The mango smoothie here is delicious, don't forget to enjoy it. After lunch, you can rest a bit to "recharge" your energy for the afternoon bombing around Mui Ne.
In the afternoon, rent a motorbike and explore the beauty of this place by yourself for about 120k/day, not including gasoline.
Song Huong Hotel
At 3:00 p.m., walk around Hon Rom beach. You can rent a beach and a place to bathe in fresh water, deposit your necessary belongings, and rest assured to bathe comfortably here. The price to rent the beach is 200k for 6 people, if you go with 2 people it will still be 200k.
7pm: eat seafood at Mr.Crab in the seafood area next to Nguyen Dinh Chieu. The seafood restaurant here is super crowded, the seafood is fresh and the crab meat is probably very different from that in Saigon. Suggested menu for 6 people about 800k is: 6 cheese oysters, 3 steamed crabs about 1.5kg, 1 plate of water spinach stir-fried with fatty snails, soup, fried noodles, grilled scallops with onion fat. The food is delicious and very cheap.
Enjoy seafood at Mr.Crab
At night: you can go back to the hotel to sleep or go to Joe's Café bar. This is one of the most beautiful bars in Phan Thiet, coming here you will hear live singing and enjoy the waves of Mui Ne at night.
Evening at Joe's Cafe
Day 02: Ke Ga Cape
Depart for Mui Ke Ga, about 80km from Mui Ne. To get to Ke Ga Cape, you can rent a motorbike on your own, and remember to prepare enough sun protection and a mask because the road is quite dusty. Or if you can't drive long distances, you can also rent a boat and canoe to go to Ke Ga cape; Or traveling by bus or public transport is also quite ok.
When you arrive, go to a local house to rent a canoe to Ke Ga Cape for 200k/6 people including travel and return. Remember to ask someone to guide you because there is no place selling food on the island, you may be hungry after swimming here.
Ke Ga Cape
On the island, you can freely visit and swim in the beautiful, cool and extremely clean sea because it is not crowded like other beaches. After bathing, you can take a boring selfie and then rent the islanders' kitchen to cook for yourself. The price to borrow from the kitchen is 50k, the price of seafood is also affordable (for example, 6 tiger prawns cost 700k, 1kg of squid, 6 crab eggs, 1 bunch of water spinach and 1 bunch of Chinese cabbage. The total cost is just over 2 million for 6 people eat).
After eating and resting on the island, you will start moving back to Mui Ne, ending the trip to Ke Ga Cape. You can relax by going to the spa right near Song Huong hotel.
Evening: dinner in Mui Ne. If you are tired of seafood, you can try western dishes at 17 Nguyen Dinh Chieu. The dishes cooked according to Russian recipes are quite delicious, although they are Western dishes, they are Vietnamese prices. The menu for 6 people is only about 800k and you get 2 portions of vegetarian pasta, specialties at the restaurant such as chicken, ribs, stir-fried beef with vegetables, seafood fried rice... and includes water and fruit. Desserts, smoothies, vegetable salads of all kinds, eat to your fullest.
At night: you can choose to have a foot massage or go to a relaxing bar and then return to the hotel to sleep.
Day 03: Sand dunes – Fairy Stream.
4am: watch the sunrise on the sand dunes. You can rent a jeep for 150k/person to go to the sand dunes to watch the sunrise. Remember to bring hats, coats and scarves because in the morning it can be very cold. You should also not miss the very interesting sandboarding here, the price to rent a skateboard is only 20k/board, and if you rent it, you should rent it from the children because they will enthusiastically guide you up the hill. . After you've enjoyed sandboarding, you should go watch the fishing and buy fresh seafood or sunny squid as a gift.
Have fun at Cat Bay Hill
The final destination is Fairy Stream. If you ride a motorbike by yourself, it can be a bit difficult. For girls, you can go on a tour for 150k which is also very good.
Fairy Stream is the final destination
9:00 am: return to the hotel to have breakfast and drink coffee. If you still linger, you can walk around the beach a little more then return to the hotel for lunch and wait for the time to return to Phan Thiet, board the train to depart for Saigon, ending the 3 days 2 nights trip to Mui Ne.