Yesterday was a very long day. The morning started with breakfast at the market - always a good thing. Nothing like a "meat with rice" to start your day! Then it was a very long bus ride to Dalat. I convinced Mark to take the "tourist - air con" bus instead of the local bus. It was a small battle, but he let me win this one. It didn't seem like much of an upgrade. The aircon was nearly non existent, but at least there wasn't chickens on the bus!
We were on board for 8 1/2 hours. I thought that was a long time until I heard other traveller's tales of 11 + hours, buses breaking down, buses on fire - ours was pretty tame. The front of the bus offered us great views of the crazy traffic in HCMC, and later, the lovely mountains. Marring the great views was the constant blasting of the air horn. Next time I'm wearing my hearing protection.
Arrival at Dalat was very refreshing. It's actually cool here. I needed a pashmina when we went for dinner last night!
We are off for our "easy rider" tour. A full day on a motorcycle to see the sights of Dalat.
Thanks for posting comments - it's fun to see them. In fact, it was a special day today because we haven't been able to view our blog until this morning, for some reason. So, we're glad to see that people are reading and posting.
4 comments:
Well after reading the post about liking to read comments from back home (you mean canada right? not just Vancouver!) and no one hd posted yet, I thought I hd better write!
My (letter before b) seems to hve just bitten the dust. slight problem since i m just bout to strt juggling 2 contrcts nd 2 kids!!! Smll problems compred to crossing the street in HCMC.
Gorge yourselves on the street food! I remember hving flfel (lots of ""s in tht word) for brekkie lmost every dy in Isrel. It ws so boring...
Hve fun nd enjoy the chicken rides too.
Thanks Mary! Very cool! Interesting about the limited size of motorcycles there. (Shouldn't they be called scooters?) Can you bring me a Hello Kitty helmut? I always wanted one... not! Talk to you soon.
Annette
PS have another for all of us at Drinking... ooops! I mean THINKING Driver.
Hi Mary and Mark
Glad to see you are having a great time. This blog is a fantastic way to keep up on your trip. Love the photo of you riding on the motorcycle taxi. But does Mark really exist? We haven't seen him in the photos yet, so we are starting to wonder.
Don't worry about work, after the fire, then the flood, and the breakin, there really isn't alot left to worry about.
Just kidding of course. All is fine here. Except I can't find where you hide the chocolate!
G'day M & M,
Great to hear your travel stories, hope you're guts cope!
I reckon Sydney traffic should take a leaf out of their books over there, more motorbikes I say, although, hmmmm what you're on in that pik.....hmmmm.....and he's lost a few front teeth - crikeys!
Have a blast and keep the tales coming!
luvvya work,
rowii
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