Dave's South East Asia Adventure!!: Dalat

Near Dalat

I've been hanging out in a super cool town called Dalat for the past few days. It's inland and in the mountains....so it's much colder here than anywhere I've been so far. In fact I've started wearing my polar fleece jacket and a toque in the evenings! I met a couple of guys from Vancouver Island (on the bus here, so we've been hanging out, renting motorbikes and checking out the sites.

First day we drove out of town and saw a waterfall, so touristy and ridiculous. The best part about the waterfall was a sweet rollercoaster type cart on the way down, it was crazy fast! We almost caused a huge accident on the rollercoaster track though, I was filming it...no braking....and didn't see that Mike had come to a complete stop in the middle of the track (we caught up to the people who went before us....even though we gave them a riduculous head start). Would've been a crazy accident, but those things stop on a dime! At the waterfall it was riduculous...you can have your picture taken with a Vietnamese cowboy and his horse....so I did :) Then we saw other random things, including "chicken village" ...a small village with a large chicken statue....strange.

Yesterday we hiked a mountain. I had no idea what I was getting into...so I wore sandals...bad idea. We started hiking @ 10am, finished around 3pm. We took the wrong paths a few times, pretty much animal paths that would disappear, then we'd bush wack. There were thorns that cut us up pretty bad, crazy Vietnamese mountain! I realized how out of shape I am, couldn't keep up to the youngins. The view was amazing though, 360 degrees of beautiful country-side. We ran into some wild horses on the way down, that was cool. That's it, that's all.