Dalat

Dalat is located at 1500 m above sea level and so a bit colder than the rest of Vietnam. In the evening it was only 15 degrees and we felt like in need of a winter jacket. If you have around 30 degrees for two months 15 is really cold. Its built on hills and is divided by a river. Dalat has beautiful architecture, a lot of influence by the french. It is really a beautiful city.

Besides the temperature we had a warm welcome. The hotel staff was nice and we met some motorcycle tour guides. Although we are traveling ourselves by bike the tour they had to offer sounded interesting. This would be the opportunity to visit all the things we saw on the side of the road for the last three weeks. We went the next morning on the back of the bikes and saw a coffee-, a flower farm and a silk factory before we got all the insights of rice whiskey making.

The whiskey distillery had a bit of a side business, weasel coffee. Weasel coffee is really expensive because the animal only eats the nicest coffee beans plus the enzymes in the stomach makes the taste even better. It sounds interesting but the reality is a sad sight. The weasels are put in really small cages where they move their body nervously from right to left.

One of the nicest things that day was a walk down a really dangerous path, it was really slippery, wet and we had to crawl over stones. This path ended behind a waterfall. It was amazing to stand there, hear the water rushing down and fell the water spray.