Mui Ne - Dalat

After the chaos of Saigon I was looking forward to relaxing on the beach at Mui Ne. I found a room right on the beach and then had a quick look around. It didn't take long as there's only one street with not a lot on it other than resorts and a few restaurants. I spent one day on the beach and then decided I didn't really like it that much. The beach was nice but there wasn't much going on apart from Kyte Surfing and Wind Surfing - it's obviously the place to be for water and wind sports.

So the next day I decided to move - the joy of travelleing! The bus trip to Dalat was an adventure. It's meant to take about 6 hours but we did it in 3hr 30m because our original driver paid someone else to take us and this guy obviously new a short cut right through the mountains. Luckily we were only in a minibus (although there were about 30 of us crammed in) and so we were able to take the dirt track through the mountain. It's obviously not a public road open to tourist buses as there was a slight delay as our driver argued with a guy that was barring our way into the back road. Luckily he let us through and we had an amazing ride.

Dalat was warm during the day but bloody cold during the evening. It's a really pretty town with lovely buildings and a nice big lake in the middle. On the second day I took an Easy Rider tour (guy on a motorbike takes you round to see all the sights as most of them are out of the centre of town). It was a long day but really good, I saw lots of pagodas, bought a silk wrap in a Minority Village, saw a waterfall, went on a cable car ride and went up Lang Bian mountain (very high) in a 4x4 which was a little scary. At the top, one of the Vietnamese couple who I was sharing the 4x4 with asked to take my photo. I can only think that they were impressed with my unique traveller style... Photo to come!

My driver then tried to persaude me to go on a 4 day tour into the highlands with him on his bike - as if!!!!