The rain in Spain stays mainly in Dalat

After our daytime sleeper bus trip we arrived in Dalat, which is like Caerffili only a bit wetter...

After a brave attempt at seeing the towns sights in the drizzle, we eventually decided that a bus tour was the way to go. Off we set on a Magical Mystery Tour of discovery...

First we went to a flower farm - our sheer excitement made us forget to upload the picture of this : /

Tehn we went to a coffee farm and learned about the delightful process involved in making 'Weasel Coffee', Then Matt ate crickets at the cricket farm...

Yum

After this it was a fascinating trip to a silk factory.

Then a brief and muddy struggle down to the Elephant Waterfall.

and a visit to a fat, happy MASSIVE Buddha:

Can you spot Matt?

The highlight of the tour was a trip to the local 'Crazy House', which was built by the daughter of Ho Chi Minh's successor as president. It looked like something straight out of Alice in Wonderland and you could stay the night there if you wanted!

I spy more than a passing resemblance to Barry Island's infamous Log Flume here...

And for the day's grand finale, we finished off with a tour round an embroidery shop

Soon we realised that we could take no more excitement and we thought it best to get out of Dalat and head for sunnier (and sandier) climes!

Current monk watch scores by popular demand (hi Dan), Matt 262 - Jenny 261. Note: Monks are now appearing in the brown variety and nuns are cunningly disguised as monks so there have been several fake monkings, penalty of 1 point per fake monk.