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March 5, 2007
Lang Bieng National Park (Katy)
Today we went walking in Lang Bieng National Park. It's about 10km out of town so we hired a motorbike to get there. We've hired bikes before, in Thailand, and thought that was bad but the roads are so crazy here, I was a little nervous. It was only 60,000 Dong to hire a bike for the whole day. That's 2 pounds.
Everything was fine though and before we knew it we were in the car park at the bottom of the hill. Well I say a hill, it was actually 2169m, so more like a mountain, but we did start quite high.
The first bit of the walk was up a road. This wasn't too bad until Jeeps started flying up and down past us, taking tourists to a restaurant on the other side of the mountain. Soon we turned off on to a small path and that's when we started to climb. It was really steep and the sun was so hot. Some parts were like going through a forest, or jungle but at least it was shady. Once again I was a bit worried about the snakes, but again I didn't see any.
Eventually we came out though the trees and climbed the last bit to the top. The views were p amazing but we couldn't stay too long. It was way to hot.
After climbing down the steep bit we followed another path over to the other side of the hill. This gave us a really good view over a lake so we stopped here, in the shade, to have something to eat.
From there it was an easy walk back down to the bottom and then back on the bike to Dalat. We filled the bike up with pertol on the way back. It cost 30, 000 Dong (1 pound). If only it was that cheap at home.
Posted by admins at March 5, 2007 8:53 AM