The Long and Winding Road

outside view of the crazy house
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I'll start by saying this is just a brief update, as we have just arrived here last night, and we will post more in a day or two on Dalat.  We had an amazing morning before we left Quy Nhon, we met the monk for breakfast, which he invited us too the night before at a karaoke party for a blind boy who recieved his life wish of a key board via donations.  It was one of the most bizarre nights of my life!  After breaky he dropped us at the bus station and we hopped on a bus for Nha Trang, as we couldn't go direct to Dalat for a few days.  Luckily there was a bus from Nha Trang to Dalat shortly after we arrived, so we hopped on that too.  The drive along the coast was beautiful and I bet the drive up the mountain would have been crazy, but it was dark so we couldn't see (except the city lights FAR below).  I think every Vietnamese person on the bus puked.  It's funny, they always put us tourists in the back seats because, we figure, they get vertigo and queasy very easily.  Dalat is a much bigger city than I thought!  So far we've explored the crazy house here, and it definately lives up to it's name!  The place was absolutle lunacy, like something pulled out of Alice in Wonderland or Dr. Seuss story.  In Canada, you would need to sign a liability waver just to go in, of course they just wouldn't build something so off beat.  Some stairways are about 30 feet(+) in the air and are a foot wide and have 4 foot railings of sorts.  It's a hotel but also a sight to see, the rooms arer surprisingly cheap, as little a 35$ per night for 2 people.  Andrew, you would have loved this place it was insane!  Today we're going to bus up to the Lat villages close by and climb to the peak of the mountain.  There is so much dried fruits, preserves, wines, and of course, amazing coffee here.  Don't worry we're picking up some stuff to bring home.  More later though.

...and again
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Love, adventure, and bizarre nights wherever you are,

my pagoda

-Sarah