Dalat and Nha trang, Vietnam

Loved Dalat too. Great scenery, rolling hills in all different shades of green. Dalat is also inthe mountains so it is blissfully cold! Purchased a North Face Raincoat and actually got to wear it with the fleece insert! So exciting after 3 months of intense heat. Signed up for a three day hike where we worked our way through fields of veggies, coffee plantations and forests, crossed several sketchy suspension bridges and saw a couple of really nice waterfalls. Had a great time with our guide, Tri, and enjoyed some seriously delicious meals (one consisted mainly of deer soaked in various delicious sauces). Back in Dalat I checked out the Crazy House, which is a hotel set up like an Alice in Wonderland set. Turned out to actually be pretty lame. Very cool ideas, but tiny with huge sections under constructions. Might be a very cool place to stay in a couple of years when it's more complete.







Nha Trang was my next stop. Nice beach town, but pretty pricey and since I spent so much time in Bali and Thailand I didn't really feel the need to stick around for too long. Met up with a German guy named Ingo and checked out a beach party. Started out being a really cool atmosphere, good music and an ice bar, but the party very quickly deteriorated to drunken musical chairs and limbo (participants were mostly 18 yr olds on package tours). Went diving the next day with Octopus Diving. Went pretty well. Best diving in Vietnam, but definately not in the same league as diving in Borneo or Thailand. Had a lovely chat with a Vietnamese guy from Saigon. He had just finoshed a Bio-chem Degree and was away from home for the first time on internship in Nha trang. He was very curious about Canada and I think just genuinely wanted to hear about my travels. Nice change from people trying to sell you stuff!