Looking for vegetarian in Dalat?

 

I stumbled upon a vegetarian restaurant on my last day in Dalat. It was down a side street opposite Linh Son Pagoda.

Dalat’s best kept secret

On Tran Hung Dao, the Dalat Cadasa Resort was made up of six houses once occupied by the French colonialists. The properties were turned into tourist accommodation and the best part was that it was possible to wander through each house and view some of the rooms without being a guest of the resort.

A Little Art Deco

If you’re an Art Deco admirer and in Dalat, don’t bother heading to the railway station unless you want to be disappointed.

A flower lover’s paradise

I never visited any city like Dalat before where flowers dominated every park, garden and even the divide down the middle of some roads.

Buddhas, Buddhas and more Buddhas

Linh Buu Temple on the outskirts of Dalat seemed to be filled with sitting, standing or reclining Buddhas.

Vietnamese dads and daughters

I noticed something amazing once I arrived in Vietnam. Wherever I wandered, dads carried their children. I observed one dad working in a restaurant while carrying his child . On buses and trains, it was dads doing most of the parenting; even walking up and down the isle of a train with the child over a shoulder trying to get an infant to sleep.

Beware of Langbiang Mountain

Not far from Dalat was Langbiang Mountain which turned out to be a tourist trap because unless you hiked to the top, the only way to get there was by jeep at 50 000 dong a passenger.

Hang Nga Crazy House

I didn’t see the point to this so-called crazy house not far from the centre of Dalat. The structure looked like something out of a Star Wars movie except it was bulging with over weight Russian tourists.

Tuyen Lam Lake, Dalat

From Truc Lam, I walked through the pine forest to the lake where a couple were posing for their wedding photos. The lake or reservoir, was surrounded by forest where an occasional tourist boat puttered across the still water.

Respite from the heat in Floral City

As the bus rallied uphill over a narrow, winding road, the temperature dropped to the low twenties and I knew it wouldn’t be long before I was in Dalat.