Around Dalat

One day during our stay in Dalat we rented a van with Richard and Debbie and another couple they had met. We spent the day visiting nearby waterfalls and other countryside attractions, such as a greenhouse and a silk factory. We really loved the scenery around Dalat and found this attractions to be surprisingly not touristy. Like the sand dunes and fairy spring in Mui Ne, the Dalat waterfalls showed us that Vietnam scenery is a lot more varied than we realized. We knew the coast and Ha Long Bay would be beautiful, but there's a lot more to see in Vietnam than that!

Loom in the silk factory. These things made great clanking noises and had a sort of steam punk aesthetic going on.

Awesome waterfall #1 (Ian and I stopped reading our travel guide once Richard and Debbie came along and did all the reading for us, so we don't know the names of any attractions anymore).

Very, VERY happy Buddha at awesome waterfall #1.

Awesome waterfall #2, also known as awesomest waterfall, as it was the best of the three we saw this day.

Looks like someone got a $3 haircut!

More of the awesomest waterfall.

No visit to the Dalat countryside is complete without a trip to the Chicken Village, famous for this statue and nothing else.