Peace Hotel (Hoa Binh) Dalat

After leaving Mui Ne, we took a harrowing bus ride to Dalat, or the Lake Tahoe of Vietnam. The ride was harrowing, because our psycho bus driver insisted on driving 75 miles per hour up this amazingly winding road nearly crashing head on into a truck (at least twice) sending us off the steep edge and plummeting to our death! At least that's the way Laura described it, as she reached for her anti-anxiety pills! Dalat is one of the four major cities in Vietnam's Central Highlands. It is also th...

Known to be one of the most popular honeymoon destinations for Vietnamese, this is not what attracted me to the scenic, mountainous area of Da Lat. I ended up staying in the town for about 5 days and wish I could have stayed longer. I alternated lazy days and active days as this was easily one of my favorite places in Vietnam. I was traveling with a girl from Norway, who I met in Laos and randomly bumped into again in Saigon and after a couple days of settling in, we went rock climbing near t...

Highland Hotel & Peace 2 Hotel Hired a motorcycle guide. My friend Christine was in his book of 'recomendations' from her trip 2 years earlier. Off to ride the Trail.

After arriving in Ho Chi Minh/ Saigon for my last night, the hotel where Laurita had stayed (and allowed me to get refreshed/cleaned after we ran through the overflowing drains up to our knees) had decided not to save me a room as discussed as i hadn't paid in advance and they had a couple through that morning. Fair enough, but i wasn't interested in going far and so crossed the street to the 'Peace Hotel' where i got about a third off the price - something i leant is a reasonable standard fo...

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Thanks for joining us in Dalat. We got to our hotel - Peace Hotel 1 - which had a little restaurant on the main floor - Peace Cafe (of course), which looked right out of an episode of the Twilght Zone. The place had character like an old diner one might find along a road somewhere in a place people hardly ever go to. Something just lost in time. Anyway, it didn't take long for one of the locals to start chatting up Norm. His name was "River". He and his buddy, "Rainbow", were motorcycle guys ...

12th We arrived in Da Lat the hillside retreat town at around 3ish. The bus journey had been long with a couple of stops but we enjoyed it.- the same could not be said for a German couple who seemed to be getting very irate at the length of time being taken to get to our destination (the bus was supposed to get in at 1ish).We took a minivan to our hotel, the Peace hotel 2 (Hoa Binh 2) which was really nice and cheap also. The hotel was linked to the Peace hotel 1 across the road that had a tr...

Am Morgen des 5. juni (fr) holte mich der Bus von saigon nach da lat ab. es war eine ueberraschend bequeme Fahrt, jedoch immerhin 8,5 Stunden, aber ich war ja in Indonesien und da ist diese Zeit ein Mueckenschiss dagegen! Die Busfahrt fuehrte uns richtung Norden in das Bergland da Lats, durch kleine Doerfer aber auch grosse Staedte, der Verkehr war aber immer gleichschlimm. Und unser Busfahrer war entweder schwerhoerig oder hatte einfach Spass dran uns zu nerven, denn er hat gehupt....viel ge...