Phan Tiet. I was in Mui Ne 4 weeks ago which is 5 minutes from Phan Tiet. Some lovely stretches of beach along this coast but it’s a 40 minute flight from Ho Chi Minh City or 6 hours on the bus so its not easy to do much touring around once you’re there.

Resort type developments like this are becoming a feature of this emerging economy and places like Phan Tiet like Ho Tram and the strip between Da Nang and Hoi An make obvious the economic gap between the locals with no connections who have very little and the connected clique who are filling their pockets at the expense of every body else.

All this under a state which is a single party socialist democracy

And we have 26 weeks of sunshine each year with temperatures between 28 and 40 degrees each day with no chance of rain I love it

The monsoon season has just arrived and it will rain more or less every day until November. It makes deciding what to take with in case it rains much easier