Dalat, once called, by…
January 8
Dalat, once called, by whom I don’t know, Le Petit Paris, keeps their replica Eiffel Tower in good shape.
Before leaving Nha Trang I booked a hotel in Dalat based on the recommendation of Lonely Planet and some folks I met on the boat tour. It was a big fat bummer place (the first bad bed in Vietnam and I think they think the suffocating pervasive smell of lysol will make people think it’s clean) but anyway I felt obliged to stay the one night.
I wasn’t so taken with the city center either, but since Dalat is most well know as a hill station, a retreat for the elite, I decided to look outside the city center for accommodation…