Sunday, March 27, 2011

Around Dalat

After checking into Hang Nga Guesthouse, met the owner and designer, rested a bit, we got out just as sun hit the horizon line.

It was time to explore Dalat town's evening.


We stumbled across this small restaurant serving local Vietnamese food and decided to have dinner there.

me and mom at restaurant in dalat


nicolekiss and mom


Gerald went to have his wine. Staying in Brunei meant he had little access to alcohol, travelling for him meant drinking.

gerald and white winegerald and red wine
A little red and a little white.


Then we went to explore the night market.

dalat town market


There were a lot of cheap winter clothes and socks for sale here. Can you believe I got a pair of VERY decent quality socks for only RM2, thick enough for trekking during winter times.

winter clothes for sale


My mom bought a white winter jacket here which she brought it to Korea a month afterwards.

mom in korea
thumbs up for mom in Korea!


Think she only paid RM90, damn cheap! (the jacket, not the korea trip)


There's not a lot to see, just a quiet romantic town; very cooling.

roundabout


The next day we hired a driver to take us around Dalat for a day tour.

dalat lake view


Following will be a quick compilation of places we've been.

We went on the cable.

sitting in a cable


farmer watering



Went to see a temple on a hill.

temple bell


me and mom in front of temple


gerald and plant


It was pretty sunny, so I gave a spare of my sunglasses to my mom.

cool mom


Walked down to the lake.

boat and lake


Went to see a waterfall, climbed it.

dalat waterfall


statue


super cool pose


cascading waterfall


Saw a bear.

bear
LOL


We took a tabogan down to the waterfall, and back up. Business flourished because of lazy people like us.

tobogan slide


tabogan ride


Tabogan rocks!!


Went to see a pagoda temple that once had a halo on it when looked from a certain angle (some sunlight angle thing which happened totally coincidental, probably once in a few years).

sun and pagoda temple


Don't be fooled by the wide angle photo, the pagoda was rather tall.

And very colorful. Spent a lot of time here camwhoring.

temple gods


ceiling lotus


dragons


me and pretty temple wall
i had to snatch the jacket from Gerald because it was too cold for me to bear. Brrr...


me and pretty craved wall


mom at big bell
mom giving the bell a ring. Go mom!


big bell


god
found on top floor


gerald and dalat view
anyone who's interested in my handsome half-godbrother can send in their resume. keke.


dragon body


monk temple wall


dalat view from pagoda temple
very pretty dalat mountain view


farming industry
green-house farms. Wonder if they're strawberries inside.


Visited a thread painting showroom. Selling really expensive and intricate thread paintings, hand-stitched.

thread painting


girl doing thread painting


3D thread painting


Some of these paintings cost up to half a million ringgit. All quoted in USD.

flowers


thread painting showroom


I'm terrible at stitching, I can't even sew a button on.
Least to say my name.

thread names
whichever tourist sewn this was really good.


Finally, as our last stop, we visited a Love Garden. No wonder they say Dalat is romantic.

garden flowers


heart shape
did someone say "love"?


dalat garden of love


We found a tree of fate near the entrance. It was said that if you throw a red ribbon and the ribbon get caught in the tree, your fate of love might just come true.

tree of fate


amber tree of fate


me under tree of fate


v sign at the ole fateful


I didn't know what this meant, but it took Gerald more than once to get that ribbon on the tree. Tee hee.

throw 1


throw 2


throw 3


throw 4
missed!


The garden's was a bit run-down but there was a lot of things to see.

Like this fake great wall of China.

me and mom in dalat garden


And terracotta soldiers.

terracotta in dalat


By the time we walked one third of the garden, poor mom was exhausted so we decided to finish the trip then and go back.

me and tired mom


At the end of the journey, we saw the beautiful love river where couples can go down and take a love boat out for a romantic "cycle"?

That's the end of our 2D2N journey in Dalat.


Here's a photo of me on my laptop in a Dalat cafe.

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