Overnight walking shoe cleaning in incident – Daisy went off early and search about missing shoes which were “still wet” – oy. Rescued – clean and more or less dry!
Breakfast of noodle soup (beef for Ged, chicken for Daisy) Vietnamese coffee without the paraphernalia. Passion fruit juice & breads/Danish.
Off touring circa 9:15. First stop, cable car panorama – we took the panorama without the cable car! [see headline photo above]
Next stop – on to Truc Lam [Zen] Buddhist monastery swarming with tourists again but with admittedly beautiful gardens and vistas.
Then on to see Bao Dai’s summer palace… …
…and then the crazy house, all similarly swarming with (mostly Russian) tourists.
Next to the Dalat railway station…
… then around Xuan Huang Lake before stopping at a place (I am told I described as) “another fucking botanical garden” – named “Flower Park” from what I can gather.
Then a wild goose chase for mosquito tablets and return to base.
Goodbye to guide Chien and driver Minh as the drizzle starts.
Then we venture up to pool and bar, landing at the latter and ordering some beer, nuts and chips just before the heavens open. We witness a French couple drinking and going off to get soaked and then returning for a cocktail!
Janie bought some items in the shop while we wait for the rain to subside. Then back to the room for some R&R and then get ready for dinner.
Dinner of Chinese style marinated beef wrapped in piper lolot leaf served with rice vermicelli (bánh hỏi) followed by a mixed meat and seafood hotpot – too much food but very enjoyable.
Reasonably early night but Ged woke up in the early hours feeling very poorly indeed!