Back to the beach

Day five (we decided to do an extra day from Dalat to Nha Trang because we were loving it so) of our easy rider adventure begun with a chilly morning in Dalat, I say chilly and what I mean is about 20 degrees, but that’s damn cold for us, its been a long time since we’ve been that cold… We had some breakfast in our hotel while our riders strapped our bags up, the lady cooking the breakfast and watching the desk had a small baby that was crying and making a fuss so she just plonked it down on the sofa with us while she finished whatever it was she was doing… Now I don’t like kids at the best of times but Georgie was playing around with it making it laugh and stuff for a while but then as always happens the little bugger started to cry, now its not something I like to advertise but I’m actually very good with kids especially babies, I used the fail safe method of giving it a bunch of keys and showing it how to rattle them… Hours of fun. Seeing as we were checking out I figured by the time someone wrestles the keys of the little lady we will be long gone, and that’s just what happened as we threw a leg over our bikes the lady eased the keys from the babies tiny fingers and just like that all hell broke loose, but thankfully it was soon over shadowed by the sound of our bikes roaring into action. We made a few more stops on our way out of Dalat at the old railway station which was a lovely little place and lovers lake where there were lots of honey mooning Vietnamese people bobbing around on little pedlo’s. Then back on the road through the hills and away from Dalat, a little pit stop for coffee and then the most amazing road we have seen yet, with views stretching for what seemed like forever, deep valleys just a few feet away and gorgeous blue skies it was just beautiful. The hills seem to catch all of the clouds and from way up on them looking down over the blue skies of Nha Trang was amazing with every winding mile the temperature sharply rose, it was like having a giant hair dryer constantly fixed on us. We pulled over on a bridge stretching across a massive valley to take of our jumpers and go have a look at a hidden waterfall, it was tucked away behind a hillside a short walk from the bridge, it wasn’t a massive waterfall only a trickle really but really really tall and cool and at the bottom an almost perfectly round pool just like a natural hot tub and the view from it was awesome, etched in the middle of the valley but way up on a shelf of granite it looked out over the bridge and to the hills behind and then out for miles and miles to Nha Trang. Back on the bikes and back along the stunning roads gradually coming down from the hills and back to flat land and another stop, for lunch at a lovely Vietnamese cafe where we had our last meal with our riders and generally loved the scorching hot weather of Nha Trang. We had a gentle ride into Nha Trang our guides all the time pointing things out and generally being top chaps, saw a moped crash which I think shook everyone up a bit, they seemed OK though and then they took us right to the beach strip and found us a wicked cheap hotel for us to crash out in… And that’s what we did, wandered for an hour or so then crashed out, sad it was all over and pretty fucking tired we were asleep in seconds…