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March 3, 2007
The Road to Dalat (Joe)
What a nightmare the journey was yesterday, we boarded the bus at about 7.30 in Saigon. It was was pretty good (air con) and not too many people on but the journey which should have taken about 5-6 hours, which would have got us there at about 2pm and would have been ok because we would have time to find somewhere to stay and have some food and have a look round the town, instead took about 9 hours and the road there wasn’t all that good so no chance of sleeping!!! I tried to pass the time by reading a book about odd travel journeys round the world which seemed quite fitting, but I went for the cheap option with the book and bought the boot leg scanned version from Saigon with some pages missing and many of the words missing. It did pass the time trying to work out which words went where. After a few hours I gave up listened to music. I think I know know every word to all the newest Arctic Monkeys album. We also had a French in 30 days CD which I thought would be good, but after a while it just put me to sleep.
After a few hours we stopped for food. It was good and really cheap.
Eventually we arrived in Dalat at about 5.30pm and found a really nice hostel in the centre of town run by lovely peole and we even have hot water. A little later we headed in to town. There aren't many westeners just lots of Vietnamese on holiday. It looks a good place to spend a few days. Hopefully tomorrow we are going rock climbing in the jungle just outside of town, should be good.
Posted by admins at March 3, 2007 3:20 AM