Jono Cane's Blog

Day 50 12/12/2009

Jen and I hired out a motor bike to go see the sights around Dalat. To be honest it wasn’t what I expected, personally I thought Sapa was a much better mountain town. This place seemed tacky as it is also considered the honeymoon destination of Vietnam. There were boats shaped as swans on the lake and flower gardens.

We headed out to see a 7 story Pagoda (Linh Phuoc) a couple of kilometers out of town that was decorated completely with broken porcelain that was very impressive. And the view from the top was cool as you could see all the farm land surrounding it.

We then basically got lost and ending motorbiking around Dalat for a good hour or two before seeing the Hang Nga Crazy House.

The ‘Crazy House’ wasn’t very impressive, odd shaped rooms with weird statues of animals inside; it was over the top and like a lot of the things in Dalat incredibly tacky which is kind of the appeal of this place.

We did more cruising around town and headed back to the hotel so I could fix my bike for my downhill decent into Mui Ne tomorrow.

Pic: Crazy House Dalat, Tiger room

Pic: Part of Crazy House, Dalat

Pic: Linh Phuoc pagoda Bell, ring 3 times for good luck, im going to need it as tomorrow im cycling down to Mui Ne on a very sketchy road.

Pic: Linh Phuoc Pagoda, decorated in broken crockery