Vietnam - Da Lat and Mui Ne April 2010

Da Lat - View from our window in the Tulip Hotel. First taken in the afternoon and second taken early morning before the fog lifted.

Da Lat - a cool climate. It is so amazing to see roses in Asia that we had to take this picture. We ate at a lovely restaurant, roses, candle and of course, the Saigon beer. While in Vietnam you have to do it the vietnam way.

We travelled to Da Lat from Mui Ne over a very rough road in a very cramped, old, local bus. It took 6 hours to travel 170kms but the scenery was spectacular, so it was hard to whinge too much. When someone go off the bus there was big excitement but then there was always the reverse, more people boarding with bags and boxes of who knows what.

Mui Ne - the view from our accommodation on the sea (1st pic) and the outside of our room - maybe the house that Jack build would be a good description.... It was called a resort but ........ Hey the room was very basic but with aircon and the view made up for it. You could hear the waves crashing on the shore. The garden and pool were lovely. It had a huge python in the lake and it was huge. Luckily it was asleep everytime we saw it.

OK, here is our friendly resort next door on the left and ours is the one on the right(1st pic) . It looks like a dungeon from the beach.

The staff of the resort next door enjoyed our company and took our photo. They liked practicing their english with us.

At Mui Ne these boats are used by fisherman. You can see the nets inside. They row them standing up with one oar. Never seen a round boat before. Some of them are plastic, you can see one in the background.

Ho Chi Minh City - early morning traffic.

We went to a water puppet show in Ho Chi Minh. This lady dressed in traditional chinese dress was an usherette.


Stopped for coffee in the city and this lady was selling wares on the street. It was in a park with beautiful big trees, reminiscent of Australia.



Floating market on Mekong river. This market was for the locals to purchase their produce for resale.

taken at floating market at Can Tho - part of the Mekong Delta trip

Lady weaving in a village

We have bought a bus ticket that will take us around Vietnam to Mui Ne,m Da Lat, Nha Trang, Hoi An and Hue. Leave tomorrow Friday 9th April, to go to Mui Ne and are staying at Loai Phongn Hotel.

We have been staying in a hotel called Thanh Thuy Hotel in Ho Chi Minh. Hotel reviews on the web work so well, as this one has only 1 star and is $25 US per night but it's really great. Has an undesirable entrance which I think brings it down but the room is fantastic. It's in the backpackers area in District 1 central to all the city highlights.

Walking in the city is interesting. Trying to cross a road, well what an experience. The only way at times to cross is to edge across with motor bikes going either side of you. Then you get to the middle and then the foray to the other side starts. It's amazing, we haven't seen an accident. Today though, we got to the middle and a large truck went by and blasted it's horn right next to us. What a fright!!!!