i cannot believe this is in vietnam
we're lloyd and mandy we've been traveling full-time for the past seven months searching
for the perfect place to live as digital nomads after arriving in vietnam a few days ago we've
traveled from saigon to the coastal fishing town of moinee where we plan to check out some very
unique desert sand dunes in our own private jeep we're just getting ready to leave ho chi minh
um we're rushing like crazy right now i'm going to go grab us some bunnies from down the street
lloyd's a little bit unwell he's eaten quite a few weird street foods in the past couple days
so he's not feeling his best so i'm running to go grab with some food and then we're jumping on a
bus for about i think it's a five hour bus ride to mui ne i'm really excited i've wanted to go
here it's rushing the elevator is taking forever uh always behind travel day always running behind
all right i found her got the bahn mi's really nice guy that was working with her um
she was fully just making them out of a laundry basket she set up like a bench with the laundry
basket i love that so innovative all right i'm running late we gotta go catch this bus
okay so what have we learned late
got a bit too confident with eating weird food tried chicken feet last
night i don't know if that's it but i've been up all morning on the toilet
which is pretty much what you want when you're about to jump on a bus for five hours
okay so no one really talks english here but it's all good this guy just told me which gate to go
to and we got our tickets and he just pointed this way so now we find a bus somewhere over here okay
three different people have told us which way to go and i don't think
they even know where we're going but they must just this must be the foreigner bus
where we found where a bus is coming from thanks to a lot of locals that just they basically just
yelled out to us where to go i don't even know how they knew which bus line we're on but it's
really helpful i'm feeling better so i think this will be all right the bus looks really comfortable
excited mandy yeah i have a lot of editing to do so i hope um i'll be able to do that on there but
yeah the bus looks really comfy and yeah everyone was really helpful really good i think this is
going to work out good for us we're just going to use buses and trains to go everywhere and when
we're on them we can catch up on work and editing while we're traveling around and it's cheap ours
this was like 10 bucks aussie really yeah for a five hour bus ride and then there's another bus
that goes to the next place to the next place to the next place so it's pretty good but maybe
we won't get our hopes up before we get on the bus we might be looking at the nice ones that
we might not be getting on them we don't know yet and i'm sort of hoping there's a toilet on there
so it's currently 4 30.
we're just about to head out to the sand dunes we slept in our alarm didn't go off classic us that's
all right we're still gonna make it really excited we're going to be there for sunrise
that was the scariest ride i've ever had on my atv i thought we're gonna die it was going so fast
and it was like leaning to the side jesus christ okay this place is so cool but it's absolute
chaos like usual there's atvs jeeps other cars bikes and stuff just going everywhere there's
so many people it's absolutely insane but it's so beautiful so it makes sense why it's
so busy i'm happy we got up so early for this because it is pretty incredible i love that you
can see the windmills from here they're so pretty and they looked absolutely amazing at sunrise so
i do recommend doing this um it was 600 000 for us to take the atv up here we aren't sure
if we could have just walked up it looked like some other people were just walking
up here but we would have missed the sunrise if we did that because we were late so
we got stung a little bit there what do you think honey got some good drone footage
very crowded i expected it to be i reckon we were about 10 minutes late for the sunrise which is
about how late we slept in but it's pretty cool not what you'd expect to see in vietnam at all
so the sandboarding seems to be the thing to do here
it's basically just tobogganing on sand watching people go down and
it doesn't look great doesn't look like they're moving very fast
maybe need some wax on the boards or something but sand's pretty sticky anyway
i think we'll give that a miss i think the atv tour guide drivers are having the most fun here
than anyone they're driving so fast around these dunes they look like they're loving it
those sand dunes were pretty damn cool very hectic like when we got here i think because we were
running late it was just like people yelling at us telling us to jump on this bike and give him
600 000 which i got the conversion wrong and was pulling out the wrong notes and
uh they were driving so fast to get up there which was sort of fun but scary as well
uh mandy thought she lost her phone but we found it in our backpack because everything
was just happening very very very fast she might have lost her sunglasses we're not sure
but now we're just chilling and mandy's found a couple of dogs as usual which made her happy
honey
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it's a good thing i have two hands he likes the camera
some of the jeeps they drive here are pretty cool houses this
bright green soft top old school looks like a land cruiser maybe or
land rover i don't know it's pretty cool they drive so fast on the dunes though
all right so we're at the red sand dunes now it's a lot smaller than the
white sand dunes and it's right next to the main road there's restaurants across the road
as well a lot of people doing the um sand boarding again maybe mandy should give it a go this time i
did plenty of that as a child on snow i think i'm okay now i'm glad we got the atv on the other sand
dunes it's actually really hard to walk i'm tired my legs are sore already we're unfit at the moment
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okay now back to the video so we've just stopped off at the local fishing village and
this is where all the fishing boats come in bring all their haul in there's literally if not
possibly even a thousand fishing boats here it's chaos there's bikes riding up and down here these
are all the fish trades going on they're loading up trucks here on the shore can't help but feel
like we're getting in the way a little bit because they're all obviously first thing in
the morning loading up all their haul for the day but it's pretty cool to see this is where the main
port of business is here in moynay there's little places where you can sit down and eat right on the
shore here it doesn't get much fresher than that straight off the boat onto your plate but i think
i'm going to give it a miss because the smell is pretty strong and i had some fish soup in thailand
that made me pretty sick the next day so i think i'll wait for something else for breakfast today
do
bye
what i was in for i'm over here
lost our minds
i did not know we were doing this today i literally thought we were
going to the one sand dunes and that was it i never know what's going on
my pants are absolutely drenched so if you're going to do this tour uh wear shorts none of
this today feels like we're in vietnam anymore like we're in like the desert like a canyon
really red dirt not sure why it's so cool i wasn't expecting this at all
yeah i can't believe this is vietnam so like we've said before we aren't usually tour people
but so far in vietnam it's been really beneficial to us we've got to see a lot of things that
we wouldn't have known about or been able to get to on our own tours in vietnam
pretty good so far so we did this tour through johnny's tours a big thank you to them for having
us today there is a sunrise and a sunset option um if you're interested in doing it
we will leave the link down in the description so this is actually the end of our tour we're
just about to hop in the jeep we've got to go pack our things because we are hopping on a bus
for a long hour for how long is the bus it's about five and a half hours
to nutrang we've got another sleeper bus so we can catch up on some sleep been up since 4
30 this morning yes i actually feel alright though i feel okay now but we'll see how we go on the bus
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