Day 26 Market Place

30/03/13
Yet another 06.30 start, today there wasn't even enough time for a proper breakfast, so we just grabbed a baguette before getting on a bus to Dalat at 07.30.  Apart from a brief 15 minute stop by a river it was a straight 5 hour slog, most of it was crawling uphill and I mean crawling, I could've cycled up faster then we drove. When we arrived there was the mandatory scrum has hotel reps tried to secure our patronage, we selected a guy who was charging $10 for a 3 person room, the only downside is that there is no AC. We got some lunch (noodle soup) at a local restaurant then spent most the afternoon bimbling around the town, until it rained. This was proper 'English' rain so we dashed into a restaurant, where we stayed until it stop, just 15 minutes later. Our wandering took us into a covered market where every shop was the same, literally there was 100+ stalls all selling identical produce, I don't understand how any of them any money. We went down a few more streets and bought 'cream cones' (cupcake icing in a wafer cone) then just 20m on Rob and I bought banana fritters (deep fried bananas), so lush! We finally came back to the hotel after completing a big old loop, all of us were massively under-whelmed, somehow I don't think we will be staying here longer than needed.