Dalat. It's been nice to sit on a bus and rest our arses! Didn't realise how much riding a bike hurt!!!

What a difference a couple of hours make, the landscape in dalat is nothing like what we have seen in Vietnam, mass pine forests, lakes, coffee plantations and farmed flowers on a huge scale...

Coffee plantation- Vietnam is one of the largest coffee producers outside of South America

Stop! pigs crossing...

A idea of what the hillsides looked like, unbelievable the amount of flowers inside each green house...

A coffee plant in flower..

A 30km drive out of town we got to Elephant falls, the best one yet....

Check this out... we're on a rented bike following this guy on mountain roads. This is a fridge freezer just balanced on the back of his bike, no straps (the strap that you can see is holding the box together) & we're struggling to keep up with him!

Coffee tree cherries...

Talulah is no more!!! What she managed to do after the Northwest loop...

R.I.P

After nearly three weeks our Honda Win has had enough, but for only about £150 it has managed to take us around the whole Northwest and down the Southeast coast of Vietnam in total around  2000km on the road and about 3000km including trains. Here are maps of what we did after the Northwest loop.

Hanoi to Cat Ba Island and back to Hanoi 334km

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Hanoi to Hue on overnight train 758km

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Hue to Hoi An 129km

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From Hoi An to Nha Trang 658km

 

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Nha Trang

Beautiful coastal town with amazing beaches, a bit of a tourist spot but still a nice stop over before we head inland to Dalat..

Stunning blue ocean...

Hai Van Pass and the Marble mountains. One of the great things about having the bike, we get to see and stop at places like these

Remote fishing village, what a cool place.

Top of Hai Van pass, an old French Fort covered in bullet holes...

Top of Marble Mountain..

View from the top of Marble Moutain, This stretch of beach is around 30km but with no building regs its being over run with resorts, hotels etc, in 5 years you can only imagine what it will look like?...

Most of the mountain is formed of Marble hence the name...

Very Temple of Doom..

Hoi An. We have heard a lot about this place. And once again the motorbike needs repairs, beginning to wonder if it we will ever make it all the way to Ho Chi Mihn City????

Chillies, garlic and all sorts of noodles drying...

If only we could get fresh Tumeric like this in the UK!!!!

A local fishing rig to catch the Basa fish. Which we tried cooked in a clay pot with Chilli, Peppers, Lemon grass Basil, and Ginger. Stunning!!