Being picked up from our hostel as opposed to trekking to our tour office in the morning is always welcome, and Sinh Tourist group in fairness always deliver a great service! We were the first people to be collected for our canyoning tour and the bus zig zagged for another half hour collecting people before we set off for our destination. The two Vietnamese brothers with identical smiles were very welcoming to everyone while the driver beeped and shouted loud...

Dal Lat is in the central highlands of Vietnam where its beauty is in the open space; brisk, cool air and vast array of flower beds that have been tenderly planted in every nook and cranny. The French were the first to visit here as they fled the tropical heat of HCMC. Their elegant colonial villas can still be seen, dotted around the vast lake that sits, constantly rippling, at Da Lat's centre. The Vietnamese seem to have carried on the French theme themselves...