Dalat - A taste of the mountains

As with any country in SE Asia anywhere up in the mountains will usually attract a fair crowd of travelers purely on the basis that it lacks humidity and has nice and cool evenings, Dalat certainly has this and more...

Dalat is reminiscent of a quiet town in the Alps and is the centre of Vietnam's wine/fruit/jam industry. Emilia and I eventually sampled a tipple of the local red and white wines and have to say that for an amateurs palate it wasnee half bad, ie.. if it was 2 for a fiver down the local off-license then I would quite easily neck the 2 bottles prior to a uni night out (cough, cough .. not looking at you Ben!)

The couple of days in Dalat mostly involved cycling around the local countryside and flying kites! We had coffee with some nice Vietnamese construction workers who didn't speak a word of English.. times were so desperate I even considered cracking out some old-skool Francais.

Next stop the seaside city of [[Vietnam/Nha-Trang]]
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written by  Michael Russell on June 17, 2009 from Da Lat, Vietnam
from the travel blog: Escape from Blighty
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