From Mui Ne we took the mountain road up to the central highlands. "Highway 28" turned out to be a quiet winding road through the mountains, which steadily became darker as the day wore on. Dan suffered a flat on the way up and had to push his bike about two kays back to the nearest village. I say push, but he actually ran the whole way with it, being the fitness freak that he is. The friendly village folk quickly had us on the road again and we forced ...

Dalat was a pleasant (if relatively uneventful) place. It reminded me a bit of Katoomba, near the Blue Mountains in Australia. A quiet and hilly town in the mountains with some nice old houses and windy streets. Actually, it wasn't really quiet at all due to the summer holidays, which meant that the town was full of Vietnamese tourists. The were out on the streets in force armed with cameras and riding tandem bicycles around the lake in the centre of the city. Th...