Dalat

Today we explored the city that is Dalat. The city itself isn't massive and hasn't a huge tourist scene (which isn't a bad thing). Our first port of call was the Crazy House, this house of horrors would make a Health & Safety inspector cream their pants, it has to be one of the dodgiest tourist attractions I've been too and it's only a matter of time before the inevitable happens! That aside it's an interesting place with wacky rooms with animals with neon eyes...you could do alot worse things with your $1.

After this we walked around the city and had a look at the cathedral and onto the flower gardens, and even better the daily hussle bussle and goings on.

The main reason for going to Dalat is to get an 'easy rider' to your next destination, the weather however is a fair bit dodge for this (flash flooding) and I think I'll leave it until another time before I ride across rural Vietnam on the back of some strangers bike. It's not a huge disappointment as we're going to motorbike through the north of Vietnam.

Next stop Nha Trang.

Dalat

Arrived in Dalat and after much hassle from various touts and hotel operators we went on the hunt for somewhere to stay, we looked at a few places along one street and although the rooms were somewhat nice they had a musty damp smell. We passed one hotel and it looked fairly new (the receptionist was outside tiling the ground). He showed us to a room which was more then impressive and I'm pretty sure we were the first people ever in this room, the taps had the stickers still on them! We took the room for the low ball figure of $8 a night.

As far as Dalat is concerned I'm not too sure on the food scene we were walking for a good hour and found this restaurant on the lake, looked abit too plush for my liking but it was reasonable and a great meal with beer for less then a big mac meal back home.

Dalat as abit of a French influence, they even have a radio tower that looks like a scaled down Eiffel tower.