Xuan Huong Lake Dalat

After a 10-hour bus ride (which over the past year of travels are beginning to seem like no problem at all) we arrived in the central highlands of Vietnam in Da Lat. Wow! This is an incredibly beautiful city with great people and attractions. A good comparison would be a combination of Banff and Kelowna mashed together, so you can imagine the …

After over two months of intense hot and humid weather, we needed a break. Consistently we have been planning our days around the weather by avoiding the peak sun hours and enjoying the morning and evening hours. However, it really puts a damper on enjoying a full day, which we miss dearly. This sort of day was not experienced in DaLat. DaLat is …

... train station to check out the journey for Fanny and her activities the following day! We ended our day slowly cycling around Xuan Huong Lake.  We caught up with Jenny and went to a cool guesthouse to eat dinner and we shared a bottle of Dalat ...

... the journey, the view from the top are amazing especially as darkness falls, the only disappointing part of the view is the Xuan Huong Lake which is currently drained to allow a larger dam to be built at the town end, apparently the works are due to ...

... , but also on this one I saw a few waterfalls, lakes and a variety of woodsy spaces which surround the Da Lat area. A good sized lake (Xuan Huong Lake) sits nearly in the middle of town and reminds me a bit of Hanoi's own Hoan Kiem lake, only its quite a ...

... took a taxi to the Crémaillére Railway Station where we checked out a few cool trains then walked back around the Xuan Huong Lake to return to our hotel.  We detoured through a few narrow alleyways where there were many people selling items like ...

... . You can even stay the night in one of their many different themed guest rooms. We walked around the banana shaped Xuan Huong lake. It is 7km around the lake and goes past the Dalat flower gardens, here some of the flowers include hydrangeas, fuchsias ...

... Indians and offering photo's…not sure what the relevance was!?! We decided to walk back into town, going via the well-known Xuan Huong Lake. Unfortunately the lake was almost completely dry, so much so there were cows grazing in it. Afternoon was ...

... some back alleys to escape the hoards of Easy Rider touts and went for a wander around Xuan Huong Lake. Our first stop was the lovely Dalat Flower Gardens and their fantastic orchids. Despite the Lonely Planets horrendous map and Erica's ...

... Cang Hotel - $38AUD per night for both of us including breakfast - very clean and modern. We had a walk around the lake (Xuan Huong Lake), the market area (the most beautiful flowers, plants and fruits) and generally looked at what there is to ...

... hotel, which is about 20 minutes away...I think you know how this ends! Having retraced our drive earlier, we made it back to Xuan Huong Lake in the centre of the city and then took a few wrong turns before we admitted defeat and got in a taxi...which we ...

... on the mountain side, not at all matching the impression we had in our minds.  In the centre of town is Xuan Huong Lake, the flower garden and the Cremaillere, the oldest railway in Vietnam which was built in 1928 and closed in 1964.  However ...