Dalat

After a reasonably pleasant 5 hour bus journey we arrived in Dalat. This town really does feel like a town in the French Alps in the Springtime, absolutely lovely. We even lucked out with our great accommodation "Dream 2" which is for nothing and comes with the best breakfast ever!!!

We decided to brave it and booked ourselves an "Easyrider" countryside tour. Basically this involved each of us riding around the Dalat countryside on the back of our guides motorbikes. Sometimes a little scary with jeeps and lorries flying towards you on the narrow roads. We have to say it was a fantastic day though. We visited some coffee plantations, flower greenhouses, rice wine making (saki) sheds, mushroom factories and even a silk factory. We also climbed around (and under) the Elephant Waterfalls and visited a "Crazy House" Hotel - very hard to explain, perhaps a cross between Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter land (how this ended up in Vietnam we have no idea)! Our bus leaving Dalat literally drove at 100 miles an hour even over one lane bridges, and interestingly enough had a large tree strappedto its roof!!!!