South-East Asia

Dalat is located in the mountains in an altitude of 1500m, giving it a refreshing climate with temperatures as low as ten degrees at night, which was a welcome retreat after the burning heat of the lowlands.

The town appears as a mixture of Paris,Switzerland and Disneyland - a well-kept lake with tiny overpriced lakeshore restaurant in the centre next to a huge golf court, European-type forest flora, some really good bakeries,

and not to forget Crazy House. This is a brainchild of a Vietnamese architect women who studied architecture in Moscow and then put into reality her childhood fantasies in a hotel resort that combines Alice' wonderland, Gaudi and smurfland.

The area is also famous for flower, tea and coffee plantations, Vietnam being the second largest coffee exporter after Brazil, and has lots of silk production facilities. It is an astonishing view to see how the silkworms cocoon is transformed into fathoms to be used in weaving the valued silk.