Dalat The faces in the street are the same, but otherwise you would think you are in another country. Everything seems to be different. The extreme heat has made way for a pleasant low to mid twenties temperature and the vegetation has lost its tropical look. The architecture looks more European and the people are not so "in your face" anymore. The “buy from me” extreme of Sapa, to the “please look in my shop” of Hue and Hoi An has made w...

Hoi An and My Son Our days in Vietnam are drawing to an end. We have passed Hoi An, are presently in Dalat and have just booked onward travel to Ho Chi Min City (Saigon) where we will spend a few days before flying to Singapore from where Gert and I both fly home again at the end of the week. But first… Hoi An is a town which is hard to describe but better explained in pictures. I can only describe it as the most beautiful town in the whole of Vietnam. It...