Travel Tales

Dalat

Twice I got up to turn off the air con in Dalat, then realised there wasn’t any. How I laughed at locals in their hats and gloves. A few hours later, they were laughing at me staggering back to the hotel in my T-shirt to retrieve my wolly jumper.

Dalat has some wonderful scenery. Truc Lam Pagoda for example:

Which overlooks Tuyen Lam Lake like this:

And from ground level it looks good too:

If you take a drive out of town and over the hills you’re likely to see something like this:

Far from home.

Out here, everybody’s producing coffee!

A couple of impressive waterfalls exist in the area such as Elephant:

And Pongeur:

And not such impressive farming methods:

There’s also the vegetable farming around town:

Finally, was there really a need for this sign, considering that 0.02 Km is 20 meters, and the entrance is the pink castle turrets in the background? I think an arrow would have sufficed rather than the actual distance…..

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