Dragged myself out of bed the next day, bit of a sleep in and updated the blog, had a email from Zach and Elise the Americans who ended up coming all the way to Dalat, they arrived a few hours after me. Meet them at their hotel and then we meet up later on for dinner. It was good talking about riding problems. The next day we decided to meet up and head up to the gondola which heads over to a reservoir and is supposed to have stunning views of the area. Will have to see.
Meet up with Zach and Elise for breakfast then we headed off for the walk to the gondola, it was about 3km work but it was a chance to see the city, it did not take us to long to get there, it helped we were chatting all the way so it did keep my mind off my legs, they were still a bit sore from the ride as I had pulled some muscles.
We arrived at the gondola with a stunning view of the city and the hills in the valley I had just ridden up the day before, after a few photo’s and that, we headed into pay for the ride only to find that it was not running, tomorrow was the call from the person behind the desk, so after a bit more of a look around we headed back into town. Spent the rest of the day just chilling out, reading my book and watching crap movies on TV.
The next day I meet with Zach and Elise again to try for the gondolas, this time instead of walking we took a taxi up to the gondolas, but again we were to be turned away, there must be some problem or something for not to be running two days in a row. We thought it would be a good idea to head to the golf course for 9 holes. The car was stopped at the bottom of the street by the police, it seemed the road was closed due to some university thing.
Lucky for us it was just a short walk up the hill to the club house, were we found out that to have a day on the course it would cost $80US or so, which was a bit out of our price range, it fact that’s about a weeks worth of accommodation plus food and everything else. We headed towards the lake and just meandered back towards town, should point out that the golf course is in the centre of town, so it was only a 3km walk back into town.
I left Zach and Elise in town we were going to meet up later on for dinner and make plans for the next days ride to the coast, I headed back to my hotel and then took the bike out for a ride to stretch my legs, did not really have a plan just ride till I find something or nothing as it turned out. I headed north for a start and after about 40minutes ride came to a gate to some park, well you could walk to the top of the hill. It cost 10000 dong to get in and then 180000 to get a 4x4 up the hill or a 3 hour walk, the clouds looked like they were thickening so decide I did not really want to walk for 3 hours so turned round and headed back to town which did not really take too long at all.
Headed up to my room to chill out, read my book and update my blog. Was going to meet Zach and Elise about 7pm but at 5pm got a knock on the door, they were down stairs with a couple of Canadians, who are also cycling around asia, it seems funny that I did not really meet any other cyclist till Lao and now in Vietnam I am meeting a few. We headed out for dinner and chatted about cycling, it was pretty good fun to hear other peoples stories, I am not sure what is going to happen but we are all going to meet up in Nra Trang and see what happens from there, still have to ride there yet.
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