Welcome to Mui Ne Beach - one of the most beautiful Vietnam beaches, the sunniest place in Vietnam! Here you can enjoy fine dining and fresh local seafood; spend an exciting day windsurfing or a reclusive morning at the White Sand Dunes; shop at the Mui Ne Village Markets for cheap clothing, local produce, and traditional crafts; explore ancient ruins of the Champa Kingdom; or have a night on the town in Phan Thiet City.
Mui Ne Beach and the surrounding Binh Thuan province have everything to offer. We have beautiful tropical beaches lined with groves of swaying palm trees; immense saharan dunes meandering through kilometers of red, yellow and white sands. We have winding rivers teeming with fresh fish and crabs; tall mountains with bamboo rainforests and pristine waterfalls. There are deep, red canyons parted by twisting streams and echoed by the sounds of tropical birds… we have everything you [...]
By Tim Jue / Beat Staff Writer
There’s this small town charm you instantly see when you step foot in the small Central California coastal town of Carmel-by-the-Sea. From the volunteer fire station in the city’s bustling and quaint downtown shopping district to the scores of boutique shops and art galleries, Carmel-by-the-Sea is what can be described as the perfect weekend getaway spot for anyone who’s eager to (at least temporarily) escape big city life.
Who can resist not coming to Carmel-by-the-Sea? Famed actor and director Clint Eastwood loved this place so much that he became mayor of it for a couple years from 1988 to 1990. Maybe it was the abundant art galleries that lined downtown streets that kept artists and cultural omnivores coming back for more. Or was it the eclectic restaurants serving up cuisine from every part of the globe. Many of them use locally grown vegetables from Monterey [...]
Moro Rock, Sequoia National Park: November 18, 2006
http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Sequoia/blog-106878.html
“Once again, my Evite for an overnight trip to see a Meteor shower fell on deaf ears. With not one person interested or able to make it, there was only one option- go alone and experience nature in its purest form- free from social distractions! Sequoia National Park was created by Congress in 1890, becoming the Second National Park in the United States- established even before Yosemite. Only Yellowstone National Park, created in 1872, is older. When logging of the Giant Sequoia’s began in the late 1800’s, locals from Visalia and Fresno championed efforts to save these ancient sentinels of the…”
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–Steve
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Stephen Hayden Photography
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In preperation for my photography book of Chile:
-locate and Photograph native areas of the Monterey Pine
-locate and Photograph Eucalyptus forests of California.
——EQUIVALENTS——
Sections of Chile- Sections of California Pacific-
-Desert North -Cabo/southern Baja
-Norte Chico -Central baja/san pedro de martir
-La Serena -San Diego
-Metro/vina/valpo -Los Angeles/Santa Barbara
-Valle Central/Concep -central cali/bay area
-Volcanes -Portland
-Distrito Lagos -Seattle
-Fjordland -British Columbia/Vancouver
-Hielo Norte -Juneau
-Hielo Sur -Wrangall/St. Elias
-Tierra del Fuego -Prince William sound
-Antarctica -Denali and Above
The morning after meeting my prince (which a blog reader informed me was actually a poisonous toad, spoiling my epiphany) there were two e-mail messages waiting about beach houses for rent.
The fog (and frog) were gone and I was possessed by spontaneity.
A quick call to a car rental agency and we were off on another adventure, in search of the perfect beach house and pura vida for a three-day whirlwind trip to the coast.
Getting around by bus in Costa Rica is the most economical way to travel but not always the most efficient. The country is small, the size of southern Alberta, the Canadian province we formerly called home, but it takes hours to drive from one end to the other. Traversing the mountainous terrain and twisty roads that connect the wet central valley to the country’s coastlines can even be treacherous at times, like driving through the Rocky Mountains during [...]
The authors created a study – via a large-scaled survey administered to high school English teachers in California, Georgia, and Kentucky – of teacher reactions to state-mandated writing tests. The surveys revealed that assessment strategies alter curriculum and pedagogical choices, influencing what teachers teach and how they teach it. The surveys were most returned from California that was in the midst of a shift from the SAT 9 to the Exit Exam. The surveys indicate, for example, that Kentucky teachers are most okay with tests and assign less and less analytic writing beyond literary analysis because they have the most established testing system.
Implication – Higher ed inherits the curricular values of high schools, even though we often think that we dictate what high schools teach.
- Summary is taught very little – and literary analysis is taught lots.
- Curriculum and classroom based assessment comes to mimick the conditions of the test (timed [...]
Here are a few pictures from our wonderful trip to San Diego a few weeks ago! We hung out at LaJolla Shores everyday and had the best time. We try do this trip annually and it is so fun for everyone. The boys play in the sand and the water while Beau Surfs and Mommy enjoys a Diet Pepsi and watches her boys play all day! We went with Brad & Kristin and we all had such a great time together making some very fun memories!
I don’t have much to say about MTV’s new reality competition series, “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF,” because I always tell everyone at the newspaper that “I don’t watch MTV, ever.” But that’s a lie; if I never watched it, I’d never have a legitimate answer for when people asked why I hated it, other than the boilerplate “No music videos!”
So I watched it tonight. I watched the second half of the new Paris Hilton series. I want to tell you why it’s bad, and why its good.
First, the bad. Though she starred in “The Simple Life,” Hilton is a failure as a TV personality. She’s a distant, aloof heiress who doesn’t concern herself with the issues of those she considers below her — a tragic mistake for a show where all the contestants are her subordinates. She comes off as sad, as would anyone who needs a TV show [...]
Chile has everything California Has- Fantastic Mediterranean weather. Very tall mountains(over 4000 meters) littered with high country lakes 3 hours from the Pacific Ocean. Glaciers, desert, rainforest, endemic trees that live thousands of years, endemic cacti. Active Volcanos. Whitewater Rivers, beaches backed up by cliffs. More Hot Springs than you can count! Avocado Orchards and Fine Wine Vineyards abound. :)
Now, take all of these things into consideration, and realize Chile is 2,500 miles long- in the Southern Hemisphere…. That means when you look up at night, there is a whole new set of stars, the moon arcs in the north and is upside down, and the sun rises and sets in a northerly arc. Its like a primevil California where the San Andreas Fault has not yet ripped up the coastal mountains from the subduction zone. Everyone speaks spanish and there is 1/6 of the population of California, 5x more national [...]
Mui Ne Beach lies 200km east of HCMC. If you’re travel weary then it’s the place to head for. Take one of the Open Tour bus services from HCMC if you’re going north or one from Nha Trang if going south. Most take a detour to Mui Ne and drop you at your chosen hotel.
We took the evening Sinh Café bus from HCMC ($5) which departed at 8.30pm taking about four hours to reach Phan Thiet. From here it’s still another 22km to Mui Ne Beach and the bus starts dropping people off at their hotels all along the coast so we didn’t arrive at the Sinh Café Resort until 1.15am as it’s the last stop.
Mui Ne Accommodation
The Sinh Café Resort was fine but ideally you’d be better off staying at one of the places nearer the bars and restaurants to [...]
