Dalat

Dalat is located on a altitude of about 1500 meters above sea level which makes it a confortable place to relax as the temperature is as hot as in Saigon for example. However during day time it is still hot, as soon as the sun goes down, it does the same with temperature and a jumper is recommanded. Founded by the French, Dalat has as main attraction an artifical lake which disappeared temporarily because they are repairing it, so instead of water we could only see the brown earth...
More interesting than the town are the possibilities around with beautiful landscape and many tour offers. We went on a day trip to see some places where people work on traditional things, for example a silk farm, coffee and tea platation, flowers in greenhouses, rice wine production, etc. We also saw a quite big waterfall, which luckily had enough water, the rivers we saw before were very dry, and a temple. Temples are everywhere, but what we recognized here in Vietnam compared with the countries before is, that here are many churches and the most of them have a modern architecture.
By the way, regarding modern architecuture: In Dalat is a house which is called "crazy house", it's a hotel and at the same time a tourist attraction. The style is maybe a bit crazy, but it's very nice. The people here compare it with Gaudi (they know Barcelona for sth more than just the football team!), the rooms of the hotel are all different and steps and passages in the building have something similar with Gaudi.
Despite the location and attractions, we left Dalat after 1,5 day, the tour wasn't the best one we've done and it's quite an expensive place. So next time we'll tell you more about the beach in Nha Trang.

Photos:
1. Mountain landscape near Dalat
2. Elephant waterfall
3. Happy Buddha
4. Silk farm
5. - 7. Crazy House with Fredi who enjoyed the visit as much as we