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18 Sept 2006 After a very long bus journey south past some beautiful scenery and up and down some fairly precarious winding roads, Gemma and I arrived in Dalat late afternoon and checked in to the Paradise Hotel (a seriously ironic name!), grabbed some food near the market and booked up an easy rider tour of Dalat (the easy riders are fatastic vietnamese tour guides who had been recommended to us by loads of travellers) and the surrounding highlands for the following day and had an early night - which was much needed after Nah Trang! The easy rider tour was excellent (19th Sept) and we had a great day taking in the sights. Our guides were so helpful and spoke fantastic english and were open to answering any questions we had...it was also good to get out of Dalat itself as neither of us were particularly taken with the city, had a very strange feel to it! We met Joel at the hotel later (who had to stay another day in Nah Trang to file a police report after his camera got stolen by a lady boy!) and although we were all seriously tempted to do an easy rider tour down to Saigon (I would seriously recommend this to anyone with more time on their hands), because of time restraints, we decided to jump on the bus to Saigon the following morning. Arrived in Saigon on the 20th and checked in to a guest house on 'mini hotel alley' off Pham Ngu Lao (Saigons mini version of the Khao San Rd...or the 'backpacker ghetto'as it's more commonly known!! Headed to a great people watching bar round the corner called Allez Boo to take stock and each work out our next travel moves! Saigon was great, had a real buzz to it, a very different feel to Hanoi, much more westernised - you can really see the communist influence on Hanoi having visited them both. Gemma headed to the Mekong Delta to meet friends and spend a few days in Chau Doc on 21st Sept, whilst Joel and I spent the afternoon visiting the War Remnants museum which was very interesting and quite harrowing (obviously purely represented from a vietnamese point of view). Bumped in to Adi (from Hoi An and Nah Trang) and Carla (who I'd met in Halong Bay and again in Sapa) later that day which was nice and was really looking forward to heading to Cambodia the following day. 22 Sept 2006 After a morning strolling round Saigon and having a final noodle soup breakfast it was time to board the bus for Cambodia...
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