On Friday we hired a car and visited a few tourist sites around Dalat. It would seem that the things around Dalat are a lot more interesting than Dalat itself. We went to Chicken Village, where they have an enormous concrete chicken statue... Aside from some monkeys in the surrounding trees, they don't really have anything else, although we were forced into visiting the shop next to the chicken statue, where they make things out of silk...we ended up buying a scarf and a little bag thing.Next stop was the Dintara Falls (there are loads of waterfalls around Dalat). Very impressive and probably worth the very steep descent and subsequent climb after viewing.
We then visited the Tiger Falls, which got their name courtesy of a "ferocious tiger" that allegedly used to live in the area. They now have statues of a large tiger and of the hunter that apparently killed the aforementioned ferocious tiger nearby. So we did the tourist thing and got photos next to the statues.
In the afternoon we visited a summer palace of a former emperor, which was a combination of interesting and tacky. Once night fell we hit the Saigon Nite Bar (even though we were in Dalat and not Saigon) and played pool in Mr Dung's trendy pub. We got talking to a few French students who were over from France studying in Saigon, and were having a weekend on the booze in Dalat. Crystal, Florent and Jean Baptiste were great value, and we outdid ourselves by getting all three to sing us the French national anthem, "Marchons". Brilliant.
Saturday morning was an early start. We had missed out on a flight from Dalat to Saigon, so we splashed out and hired a private car to drive us the 308km distance. Much more comfortable than a bus, and about the same cost as flying.
Giant
concrete
chicken
Tim by
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Megan
the
tiger
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