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Before lunch, we visited:
1. Dalat Wonder Resort, Phường 4, Thành phố
2. Bao Dai Summer Palace, 1 Đường Triệu Việt Vương, Phường 4
3. Robin Hill, 8 Đường Đống Đa, Phường 3
4. Da Lat Cable Car Station, Đồi Robin, Lâm Đồng 66116
5. Trúc Lâm Phụng Hoàng Zen Monastery, Trúc Lâm Yên Tử, Phường 3
6. Datanla Waterfall, QL20 Đèo Prenn, Phường 3
7. Tuyền Lâm Lake, Phường 4, Dalat, Lâm Đồng
8. After lunch, we visited:
9. Đà Lạt Cathedral, 15 Đường Trần Phú, Phường 3
10. Dalat Flower Garden, 2 Đường P. Đ Thiên Vương, Phường 8
11. Dalat Wonder Resort, Phường 4, Thành phố Đà Lạt, Lâm Đồng 66100 |
Lots of unfinished buildings.
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Our room with 2 beds. The view from the room.
Nice lake below, but misty due to the rainy season. |
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Red soil outside our building.
Seen from the inside. |
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Villas, a concept Martin doesn't like. Make no
sense.
Lovely pool.
The infinite pool. The water falls over the
edge. |
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Nice one and
Martin had a swim for 111
minutes every day. Funny house. What a villa. |
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Fountains on at 0700.
Martin at the railings with his thermometer. 20 in the air and 19 in the
pool. |
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You barely can see the sun through
the mist. Martin checking the temperature. |
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Fancy and big restaurant.
Martin is picking up his soup. Very nice. |
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Breakfast desert.
Pot plants outside our building. |
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Ready to sightsee Dalat.
Details above. A nice winery that we didn't have
the time to visit. |
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The cable car service
was suspended due to the Chinese Wuhan virus.
Local temple, Trúc Lâm Phong Hoàng
Zen Monastery. |
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Golden pagoda.
Martin tired. |
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Pot for burning
incense. Big, fat, black Buddha. |
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Overview of the
monastery complex. Rules of engagement. |
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Martin with a bench
donated by a Russian. Martin at the exit. |
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Cable car shut down.
Still standing cable cars. |
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Phuong and big dog.
Big dog, huskey? |
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Tuyền Lâm Lake, Phường 4, was very nice.
Here is an overview. |
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Our car with driver.
Very convenient way to travel. Villas are very
popular and there are many of them. |
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Tuyen Lâm Lake, Phuong 4, Dalat,
Lâm Đong
was a very nice place. Here the dam.
The lake itself. Lot of boats. |
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Phuong and Martin on
the bridge out to the dam level control. One of
the many houses surrounding the dam. |
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The dam barrier at the
one end. The overflow channel below the barrier
in case water needed to be let out.
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Time for a beer stop.
Very nice and very big restaurant with reasonable prices in Dalat. |
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Local rickshaw in Dalat.
Lovely colored in pink.
The Cathedral of Dalat. Also called "Jack's Church. |
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The flower park of Dalat. Ticket office. The
welcome sign you see when you leave. |
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The reverse sign says "Welcome back". A little
back to front.
One of the many flower bed in the park. Phuong in the background.
Another lovely flower arrangement. |
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Phuong and Martin in a
photo-op window. Phuong and the flowers. |
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Phuong in a sea of
flowers.
Martin was very impressed by the the rubbish
bins they had all around the park.
Martin in a sea of red flowers. Lovely. |
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Another arrangement
meant for photos. Martin here. And Phuong there. |
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An artificial lake
inside the compound. Martin is old and fat and
needs to rest often. There were ample opportunities to do that in the park. |
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A flower arrangement.
Martin is having another rest. |
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Lovely arrangement for
photos. Martin couldn't resist taking this
picture of a fat assed photographer next door. |
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Martin with his
favorite rubbish bin. Off to another temple,
this time it was the amazing
Golden Buddha.
The Van Hanh Pagoda . |
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They had some nasty
figures here as well. This one of the famous
pictures, The Resting Buddha. |
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Phuong with the big,
fat, black Buddha. Phuong and Martin in front of
the Golden Buddha. |
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Martin's favorite
Buddha. Big, white, fat and smiling. The
reclining Buddha. |
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The temples inside
where amazing. Phuong and Martin with the
reclining Buddha. |
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A lot of benches were
donated by foreigners and X-Vietnamese like this one.
Phuong praying, something she does often when visiting the temples. |
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A pot and its tree
trunk inside. One of Martin's favorite, the
black, fat Buddha. |
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Phuong and the tree
trunk. Overview of the city. |
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Thuy Duong Family Restaurant was amazing. Go there if you can.
You can view the lake from there. |
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Something Martin loves
in Vietnam, rice bread. Nice and crispy and comes with bananas or coco milk.
A novel way to cook rice, in bamboos. Very nice, tasty and delicat. |
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Martin and his rice
bread. You get your own grill on the table. It
works fantastically well. |
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The rice bread with
lentil seeds, good for stomach and Martin's favorite, pineapple.
Just to keep the flames down, a fan is
provided. |
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Phuong is eating rice
from the bamboo. Novel way for Martin and the
rice turned out to be very tasty. |
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Then off to the
strawberry fields. Phuong picked a basket, but
they don't taste as good as the Norwegian ones due to the longer day in
Norway during the summer season. |
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Street lady peddling
her newly grilled goods. Misleading sign sent us
on a 5 kms forest trip. |
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