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Christmas and Cable Cars
... literally falling over themselves to get a look at the tall white guys (one particular girl looked mortified as she went head over heels in front of us) before we made our escape. On Friday we had a nice walk around Xuan Huong Lake at the centre of Dalat, and had a look at the Cathedral (crosses) and Train Station (erm, trains), before catching a cab to our second cable car. This took us horizontally above farmland for a couple of miles to Thien Vien Truc Lam, or the Bamboo ...
A harrowing ride and a surprise
... are many of the same agricultural products. The people seem gentle and kind and we have been treated very well.
Cars are expensive so most people ride bikes or motorbikes and the traffic in busy sections is horrendous. We are more confident now crossing the streets and we were shown how.
The surprise is that Christmas is everywhere in this mostly Buddhist country. From the minute we arrived Dec. 3, we ...
A weather restricted Nha Trang
... the city. This sight wasn't so unique for us but James was taking it all in fantastic fashion. We then headed to a temple that was built in the 12th century that didn't use concrete or any sort of sticking type substance to build. It sounded like one of the houses from the '3 Little Pigs' from what I was hearing which made me wonder if I was going to stumble onto the origins of the infamous tale. So we rocked up only to find it could not be blown ...
Nha Trang
... tot het weer droog werd. Daarna een lange wandeling gemaakt naar het meer inlandig gelegen gedeelte van Nha Trang om de Long Son Pagoda te bezoeken. De pagoda bevond zich in een groot park waar ook een enorm boedha beeld was geplaatst op een hoge heuvel. Aan de voet van deze boedha waren zes bustes van monniken te zien die zichzelf allemaal middels zelfverbranding hebben geofferd, zo ook Thich Quang Duc (Foto is gepubliceerd in bekende dagbladen, hij staat ...
Day 1 in N'ha Trang
... also very reasonably priced. That evening we went out to a local Vietnamese restaurant and I enjoyed the local delicacy for the second time, this was an egg pancake base filled with shrimps and beansprouts and with salad on the side. Really good and very cheap. I then headed back to the room for an early one, I do sort of regret this as I have since discovered there are some lively and interesting nightlife spots in N'ha ...


