Thursday, August 02, 2007

Dalat

After three days in Nha Trang, we were picked up by our guide, Chu Chu, and traveled by car to Dalat.


Along the way we stopped at a small ethnic village in the Central highlands.


The locals came out to greet us.


Several hours later we arrived at our hotel in Dalat. Dalat city is probably one of Vietnam's most well known vacation destinations. Since the turn of the century, Da Lat has been the vacation spot for well-to-do vietnamese and foreigners. It is the unofficial honeymoon mecca of Vietnam. Located on Lám Viꮠ(Langbian) high lands, part of the greater Central highlands of Vietnam (Cao Nguyen Trung Phan), the city is 1500 m above sea level and is 305 km from Saigon.


How great is it that a communist country uses a Jeep for a police car?