As we crossed the road for brekkie today, an elderly lady was shuffling along the footpath. She stared at Steve and when he smiled, she immediately smiled back. We've found this is almost always the case over here - Lonely Planet says a smile will go a long way in Vietnam and they're right. For some reason there was something about Daniel that appealed to her. She was staring and pointing which threw him a little bit so we were not really sure what it was all abo...

The plan was to go to the Elephant Waterfalls but the weather was less than favourable. Our driver suggested a few destinations and we worked out a rough plan. As we drove past the cathedral up the road, he pointed out the rooster on the very top of the cross on the spire. The locals call it "the chicken church". We saw no less than 6 weddings there the day before when we were on our travels. First stop was Bao Dai's Summer Palace. Bao Dai was the last feudal em...

Woke up early today. Apparently school starts around 6am here so the principal was on the bullhorn around 6:30am. That will be our alarm clock during our stay but at least we're not next to a mosque. The Dalat Hotel Du Parc is one of the first French built hotels in the area and has some amazing architecture. It has an old style cage lift which we failed to realised how to operate first time. We stood in there for a few seconds looking like complete doofus...