It doesn’t look like this here, but we were getting saturated from the mist which was coming off the waterfalls stands here and underneath the falls.

Venturing down to the waterfalls was a dangerous, scary but worthwhile task. The view from the top did absolutely not justice to the sheer size of these falls. But the rocks down were slippery and I came out off this climb with my clothes and hands covered in dirt, and wet from trying to stand as close to under the falls as possible. But worth it!

No photo could adequately show how fast this lady was weaving these mats. The way she is sitting is how ALL women seem to sit here in Asia… Olivia and I tried it and it ain’t comfy. These mats are used for housing constructions as well as silk worm cocoons to store for their silk production line here.

Second to Brazil in the amount of coffee produced and a well known thing to sample as you travel through Vietnam, our next stop and route of our trip involved fields and fields of coffee trees and plants and learning how they make coffee. The red seeds are picked to be dried out and here in Vietnam they have a variety of methods and additives to the coffee seeds. With some incredible flavours (my favourite was moka butter in which they add butter and sugar to the coffee beans) I spent a good while sampling the aromas from the different types, and though I did taste Olivia’s coffee the smell is the only part of coffee (and chocolate coated beans) which I can handle. We spent a good while here as we met a man Mark Power, from Melbourne who chewed our ears off with his incredible travel stories.

A short hike up the mountain (though enough to indicate the effects of 2 months of travel to our fitness) we arrived to panoramic views of Da Lat; a town known for its soil quality and abundance of fresh harvests. Neat fields of flowers, vegetables and fruits of all varieties as well as green houses housing the organic crops and those that need protecting from the infamous and common down pours during the present season.

In Da Lat, the general way to see the city and country side is by motorbike, and these people are called “Easy riders”. It’s hard to know sometimes who is a legitimate guide as random will pull up beside you as you wander the town and offer you their tour guide services claiming to be an easy rider. Olivia and I sought out the official Easy Rider cafe, and found ourselves two wonderful tour guides to take us on a tour of the countryside and surroundings of Da Lat city. With remarkable English and sense of humour these two men showed us the beauties of the Vietnamese landscape, lifestyle and what Da Lat has to offer for the next 6 hours.

First stop on the tour was this pagoda. Our guide explained that pagodas are meant to be situated outside of the city for peace and quiet, but DaLat has grown so much that it has expanded out and surrounded the pagoda.