The Sea at Mui Ne....

Hi,

Just wanna know how the sea and beaches are this time of year at Mui Ne?
I'm going in a week or so, and wondering if I should blow the budget and get a hotel with a pool?!

I heard that the waters aren't that clear around Mui Ne, and now with the rainy season and all...

Any advice?

Luce

Water isn't too bad at the moment, it hasn't rained for a few days. Beach is pretty small in many places, and there a re a few jellyfish around.

Sometimes Mui ne gets a bad rap but I've never seen or hear anything to suggest that there's much difference between any of the beaches in VN in regard to cleanliness and clarity. Mui Ne generally does have a lot of jelly fish during rainy season though. In past years I've found myself in huge schools of them, but never gotten more than a few very mild stings.

there is a diffrenece between the beaches upon their location : the climate is quite different. If #0 is afraid of possible rainy days, go ahead to Nha Trang, fair weather is guaranteed , should have 1 or 2 rainy/months until october !

Actually, Mui Ne and the surrounding area has the lowest rainfall in Vietnam, if not all of S.E. Asia.

I don't think you'll blow your budget if you choose a place w/a pool. We stayed at Minh Tam Resort last year, on the "beach" (I use the term loosely, as it's built above the water on top of a concrete retaining wall, and most of the day the tide is so high the beach disappears). There was a delightful pool right there, the rooms were decent, and there was a restaurant as well. I think rooms typically go for $15 a night, but we were able to bargain w/them.

What about the layers of milky foams that sporadically caught my eyes, are they there at a certain time of the year or just localized in some locations? Just being curious because I couldn't picture myself taking a swim in the presence of them foams.

#6, It's season and not a mui ne-only thing. I don't remember the exact cause but I think it is pollution causing an algal bloom and die-off. I wouldn;t want to swim when it does that either.

Actually, the southern half of Vietnam is facing a potential catastrophe if they don;t get their act together. There have been near-constant reports in the local news of oil spills all up and down the coast this last year, repeatedly. If they don;t find/admit the source of the problem and take care of it, one of these times they could destroy the local fishing industry, tourism, coral reefs, etc.

The Mui Ne beach (in front of the Pandanus resort) is not for swimming. Through out the coast you can see all the leftovers from the fisherman boats that are in front. The sea is full of green plangton and full of jelly fishes. Around 5 people staying at the resort (including myself) were beaten by the jelly fish.

The swimming poll at the Pandanus resort is very beatiful with coconut trees, but has really hot water and at some times it had crabs and frogs inside and around 7 o'clock in the afteroon the bats were making flying on top ot the pool.

That's a bummer, yannpapa. I agree, that beach is not for swimming. Unfortunately, Pandanas is isolated from the other resorts on Ganh Beach (not actually Mui ne beach, although it is in Mui Ne Village), and for half the year it serves as a seasonal harbor and gets rather dirty. The other half the current is too strong and it is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to swim on that beach. Pandanas claims to be full much of the time (like all the other resorts claim too), but every time I've gone it's practically empty.

It is true that Pandanus claims to be full much of the time but the truth that it was pretty empty (because it is pretty big too). We knew the other residents very well because there were not more than 20 during our 5 days stay there. Some days (mostly during Friday and Sunday) there were more because they would come from Ho Chi Minh city for the weekend.

But you can not claim that you have the biggest and the best beach (like the manager suggested) and the beach would be dirty (he said he had 200 employees and not one was on the beach to clean it), the currents at some periods are very strong, the water is not clear and it is full of jelly fish. I am sorry but I was disappointed especially because I live in the Mediterranean sea (Greece) and the expectations I have from the sea are pretty high.