Da What? - Blogabond

We are in the mountains, and boy is the temperature change a welcome break - I am wearing pants!!! There was an article in the WSJ a few years ago about this town - it was developed in the late 1800s by a protege of Louis Pasteur. Apparently it's the top honeymoon destination in Vietnam, though it's not immediately clear why - perhaps in the non-rainy season it would be more of where I would choose to honeymoon.

Yesterday, however, we did check out the golf course. For a mere $90 you can play what looks like a fairly well tended and potentially interesting course. I think we are going to try it either tomorrow or Sunday for their twighlight special (on $40). We did hit on the range though, which was a lot of fun (just knowing we were playing golf in Vietnam!).

Despite

a rough start (a shouting match in the hallway outside our door at 6am) the day has turned out to be quite a kick. We started by hiring a car to go to the top of a tall local mountain. We got to the base of it and then transferredto a jeep (Russian-made, former war jeep). The view was almost completely blocked by clouds, but it was still pretty cool. It was pretty crazy to think that nearly 40 years ago an American soldier might have been driving up that same road - what would he have thought of the idea that in another few decades a tourist from his country would be driving up the same (US Army-made) road to admire the views.

We also visited "crazy house", which was designed in Alice in Wonderland style by the 2nd daughter of the 2nd president after Ho Chi Min. Crazy indeed.

All the beds had mirrors above them...weird. But cool for goup photos!

Next we went to a local waterfall that you reached via tobogan. That was pretty wild (though not as wild as it could have been - had to screech to a halt to avoid hitting the lollygagging couple in front of me - get off the brakes!!!) The water was pretty though.

Vivian and i are going through the local market soon. (carl is elevating his ankle - mysterious pretty serious strain). Tomorrow we are still hoping to go mountain biking.

written by

GoBlue on June 29, 2007 from Da Lat, Vietnam

from the travel blog: Joc's Journeys

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Why is the mirror over the bed weird? Vivian had one above her bed in Ann Arbor - is that weird? I just thought she liked preening a whole lot. Huh.

written by Patrick "wait, are your relatives reading this" Lyon on July 5, 2007

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