text: [{"text_idx": "#000006", "text": "Cam Ranh to Nha Trang"}, {"text_idx": "#000025", "text": "Binh Thuan is the closest mainline station to the city of Phan Thiet and the beach resort area of Mui Ne. The journey by train from Da Nang to Binh Thuan is scheduled to take from 15 to 17 hours depending upon which train you take."}, {"text_idx": "#000032", "text": "Location of Binh Thuan Station"}, {"text_idx": "#000035", "text": "Phan Thiet is a small city by Vietnamese standards with an urban population of around 300,000 permanent residents. The city centre has lots of shops and places to eat, some of which cater well for foreign visitors. There are some quiet beaches to the south of city centre with a low density of resorts fronting onto the beaches themselves."}, {"text_idx": "#000037", "text": "Phan Thiet in Binh Thuan Province"}, {"text_idx": "#000038", "text": "The majority of visitors choose not to stay in Phan Thiet in favour of a more touristy area called Mui Ne, which is 27 km by road to the east of Phan Thiet city centre. What is described as \u2018Mui Ne\u2019 in fact incorporates several smaller villages, each with their own character and points of interest to visitors."}, {"text_idx": "#000039", "text": "The busiest part of Mui Ne is Ham Tien, which includes the 10 km long Rang Beach. Ham Tien has a lot of hotels, bars and restaurants, all catering to tourists and the best nightlife in Binh Thuan Province. Rang Beach is considered one of the best places in South East Asia for kite surfing and wind surfing and a lot of foreign travellers come to Ham Tien to do one or more of these activities."}]