Experiences of traveling : "DaLat - City of Eternal Spring (Vietnam)"

Da Lat is located 1,500m (4,900 ft) above sea

Something about DaLat: DaLat is the capital of Lâm Đồng Province in Vietnam. The city is located 1,500m (4,900 ft) above sea level on the Langbian Plateau in the southern parts of the Central Highlands region. In Vietnam, DaLat is a popular tourist destination.
DaLat’s specific sights are pine wood (forming the name: “City of thousands of pine trees”) with twisting roads and tree marigold  blossom in the winter. The city’s temperate weather stands in contrast to Vietnam’s otherwise tropical climate. Mist covering the valleys almost year-round leads to its name “City of eternal spring”.
With its year-round cool weather, DaLat supplies temperate agriculture products for all over Vietnam, for example: cabbage and cauliflower. Its flower industry produces two typical flowers: hydrangea and golden everlasting (Vietnamese: Immortal flower). The confectionery industry offers a wide range of mứt, a kind of fruit preserve made from strawberry, mulberry, sweet potato, and rose.

• Transport

You can go by plane to Lien Khuong International Airport-Dalat.
If you are in transit to Ho Chi Minh City. There are two most common ways to move to DaLat are by plane or bus . To fly to Da Lat you can go by VJA or VietnamAirlines. These firms sale  Cheap Airfare. You take the trouble to register the network or mail to them to there is cheap tickets.
Also you can go to by bus from Ho Chi Minh to Dalat, my car or go Phuong Trang, company reputation and good quality. You can go the flight 20h30, 23h from Ho Chi Minh. You call  them (0838309309)  for more detailed information. In addition, you can also take a bus from Nha Trang.

Da Lat and NhaTrang near each other, perfectly  reasonable when you combine 2 places in a trip.

• Live

Located in beautiful position of Ho Tuyen Lam, Binh An Village Resort Dalat enjoys many advantages in romantic, scenic center of Da Lat. With located 11.2 km from the city center and the airport 34. Km.

Located in beautiful position of Ho Tuyen Lam

When visiting Dalat, you will feel right at home in Dalat Edensee Lake Resort & Spa, where excellent quality and considerate service. Located just located 12.0 km from the city center, you will get good accommodation to enjoy the interesting and popular activities here.

Dalat Edensee Lake Resort & Spa

Addition, there are other good hotels as : Villa Bich Dao, Osaka Resort, Green Valley Hotel , etc.

There are many cheap motels and reasonable for you to go cheap ways  travel to Dalat. Some hotels you should consult :

Hotel Hai Uyen / Phone : 0902.435.245 / Cellphone : 0633.510.733 / D / c : 67 , Nam Ky Khoi Nghia . You should call this first hotel, because hotelier was one young couple and very decent .
Motel room in Thong Thien Hoc  alley . Accommodation small but has wifi , hot water , clean rooms . Room rates range from 150.000vnd - 250.000vnd depending on time ( reference value in 2013 ) .  Number phone of homeowner tel : 097.816.6086 or : 01,665,134,035
Hotel Nhu Anh, 300.000vnd/ double room   , clean, quiet but remote village. This hotel at 33 Vo Truong Toan street, from Phu Dong Thien Vuong street  turning into ( behind the University of Da Lat ) . Hotel only 6 rooms , actually more like a villa . There is a small garden , balcony upstairs overlooking the small lake behind one university . You can sit there drinking coffee all morning watching the wide green space and solitude . What's more, if you bring binoculars, you can see birds around because a lot of trees here .

Some other reasonably priced motels you can refer to.  In the Nam Ky Khoi Nghia:  Hotel Thanh Dat / Phone: 0633.820.826,   Hotel Tam Dung / Phone: 0633.823.170 ,  Hotel My Hoa/ Phone: 0633.828.123 ,Hotel Juno Phuong / Phone: 0633.54.6868,etc.

Dalat villas for 25 to 30 members of groups : Villa Hoa Hong/Phone: 01666060589, 0977958575, 35 Tran Binh Trong street . Reference price at the time: in November 2012 was 1.5 million vnd/ 1 day, living about 30 people, many rooms, kitchen,  comfortably for party.
   Villa No. 14, No.1 Quang Trung Street, Da Lat. The Villa was built in 1930 and has been renovated, surrounded by gardens, flower frame,wooden fence painted white  . Reasonable price: 600.000vnd/ room have hot and cold, 75.000vnd/ngay/ 1 moto . From here to comes down Station Da Lat just 200m, 500m down the Xuan Huong Lake.  Phone (0908847604 or 0633810898) homeowner very enthusiastic to guiding visitors meticulous and thoughtful.

• Go back in Da Lat

  Vehicles from Lien Khuong Airport to center of Da Lat,Taxi Thang Loi 200.000vnd / turn, to hotel  . Tel: 063. 383 5583. By bus  40.000vnd/ passenger . The bus will stop at the station Dalat market.
 - Motorcycle Rental in Da Lat :
    + Phone Number: 0633700687, date usually cost around 60-70k, 90-120k holidays. Her shop  at Nam Ky Khoi Nghia 5 minute walk to the market.
    + Double Bike: The area around Lake Xuan Huong is a great option if you want to rent bikes sometimes (should rent this car go in the evening is most ok ). To hire a car you need to have Visa . Prices are relatively cheap ..
- Electric cars: This is a service of mailinh Da Lat (opened December 11, 2007), electric vehicles can carry 6 people, with 6000vnd, you get a tour around Ho Xuan Huong. Tel: ticket offices (063) 285066 ..
- Car rental: Contact Number 18b / 2 Phu Dong Thien Vuong Street, Ward 8, Dalat city. 063.6287.418 - 0909.951.087
- Some firms Taxi: Mai Linh Da Lat: 063.38.38.38.38, Taxi Cherry (063). 3570570, Taxi Toserco Dalat (063). 3830 830, Shengli Taxi: (063). 3835 835, etc.

• Food & Drink

- You can eat at restaurant in hotel that you are staying as: Binh An Village Resort Dalat, Dalat Edensee Lake Resort & Spa, Villa Bich Dao, Osaka Resort, etc.

Restaurant Binh An Village Resort Dalat

Restaurant Dalat Edensee Lake Resort & Spa

- Popular dishes for cheap travel :

  + Breakfast at Hoa Binh region have kiosks as pho Tung , pho - rice Bac Huong (near the coffee successor Tung), bun Tung Nghia bus station (zone behind Peace ), pho Hieu(beside Hoa Binh region). But if on the other streets not near the center of Da Lat, people like breakfast at bun Thien Trang (Ho Tung Mau) pho Hoang Van Thu, Pho Quang (Ha Huy Tap), etc.

Bread soup Vietnam

Bun Vietnam

Pho Vietnam

  +Bread soup Xuan An , only with 25,000vnd , it is located near the city post office - Da Lat
  +One dish must also mention of the China 's restaurant located on Phan Dinh Phung Street named : Wonton noodles , very tasty and the price is only 25,000vnd per bowl .

-Around Xuan Huong lake there are many cheap cafes with poetic scenery,  every morning you enjoy 1 coffee cup hot at  here is  wonderful thing.

Thanh Thuy Cafes beside Xuan Huong lake

-If you want to buy cheap strawberries, quality: Last Nguyen Cong Tru Street, near the intersection with Xo Viet Nghe Tinh, this place has 3 ki-ot  sale strawberries with price from 15.000-30.000vnd . Buy strawberries on Bui Thi Xuan same , but only sale morning .

 Strawberries Dalat grown so much

• Visit

Da Lat has much to visit. However, below are the attractive places that you can not miss:

May called Mong Mo hill is a small Da Lat

 1. Mong Mo Hill is a romantic landscape of Dalat, where even its name also speaks of "poetry". May called Mong Mo hill is a small Da Lat. Mong Mo Hill is a new resort built recently, with  arrangement follow artistic  include the villas, pools, restaurants, amusement parks, souvenir area, etc.

Motel of Mong Mo Hill

 Museum Choe Tay Nguyen 

Theater gongs

Love Valley  is one of the most romantic sights in Dalat

 2. Love Valley  is one of the most romantic sights in Dalat,  the city center is about 5 kilometers to the north away. Love Valley is beautiful and fascinated by deep valleys and lush green hill all year round. In 1972 a dam was built astride the valley formed  Da Thien lake, adding charm to the landscape.

Paint Gun  is fighting counterfeit games have long been familiar to young foreigners

 3. Waterfall Prenn is a beautiful waterfall in Lam Dong province. Falls brings a soothing, graceful as a screen gently pouring water from a height of 10 m to a small lake, surrounded by flowers and a hill full of pines.
Prenn Pass is located in the center of Da Lat Prenn about 10 km away, is located along Highway 20.

 4. Peak Langbiang : Distance  from Peak Langbiang to  DaLat city is 12km  , situated at an altitude of 2.169m compared to sea level, so the climb to the top Langbiang is one challenge for you.

  5.  Xuan Huong Lake is a beautiful lake located in the center of Dalat city. Around the lake there are pine trees and lawns, flower gardens. This is a favorite place of tourists to walk or bike to visit the city of Da Lat. Xuan Huong Lake is an artificial lake, about 5 km in circumference, 25 hectares. Crescent-shaped lake lasted nearly 7 km to go through many tourist destinations of Da Lat city, such as the garden city, Yersin Park, Cu Hills.

Some places you should visit as : Bao Dai Palace, Danica Lake - Yellow Springs, Cu Hill, etc.

 The flowers garden of  city

The pine hills in Dalat

Note :
-If possible, the evening  you  drive up the hill to watch the Da Lat lights, fog blurred very romantic.
- Foods of Dala are very cheap and tasty . You should to ask the natives, will be advised of your favorite dishes, they are so friendly.
-You should rent a  double bike to  walking around Xuan Huong Lake is very interesting in the morning.

Beautiful pictures of nature part 1

Geographical location, the climate has created various diverse beauty of the natural wonders: the pink lakes, the beautiful flower fields, the breathtaking canyon and lots of other places that you can hardly believe that it exists. But the truth is they exist on earth.

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Salar de Uyuni - the largest salt plains in Bolivia world

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Rừng tre ở Nhật Bản

City of cherry blossoms in Bonn, Germany

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The wisteria tunnel  in Japann

Black Forest, Germany

Field of green tea in China

The 10 Most Dirty Festivals from Around the World

• 'Clean Monday ' in Galaxidi, Greece

Do not let the name fool you, this war is not clean that's where they threw a total of 1,300 kg of powder on each other during the festive season of the Greek Orthodox religion. Peoples preparing all day long "fight" with the old flour bags, shielding their homes with blankets, some people still buy goggles and masks.

• La Tomatina  Festival Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia

Normally, throwing rotten tomatoes and eggs is considered insulting and protest, but the tomato fly in festival La Tomatina is a joy. Held annually in the town of Bunol, Spain, sour present festival attracts thousands of attendees. The exact origin of the festival is unknown, but theorized that it stems from anger in a parade. Despite the mess, what happened in La Tomatina festival will surely make you satisfied.

•   Chinchilla Watermelon Festival, Australia

Among all the food festivals in the world, Chichillian watermelon festival seems most creative. Not only is watermelon thrown together that people still think of all the game related to melons, such as "slip watermelon".

• Buffet monkeys, Lopburi, Thailand

This festival is relatively safe and clean for the tourists when no food was thrown into own but they will be monitored party for monkey with hundreds of kilograms of food, beverages and fruit.

• Battle of Oranges, Ivrea, Italy

Carnevale d'Ivrea or Battle of Oranges takes place at Ivera city in northern Italy, as well as a festival involving food . Almost like La Tomatina festival seems rooted in the people's uprising. Today, battle cam includes colorful costumes and play different roles in order to "fight".

• Lathmar Holi Festival, India

Holi is a day that is awash in color. Participants gather and throw colored powders and water at each other. The colored powders have traditional significance in Ayurvedic medicine and were historically derived from medicinal plants. Different parts of the subcontinent celebrate Holi in unique ways—with certain songs and dances—but the main theme is the same. Lots of fanfare and a multitude of colors.

• Batalla del Vino, Spain

If you think that the tomato stains are the most special then you will have more surprises than when it comes to the war of wine in La Rioja wine. La Rioja is famous for wine production and seem to yield very abundance. During the festival, everybody spray alcohol into each other until all turned purple, apparently drunk and stumble.

• Songkran Festival, Thailand

Songkran Festival or Water Festival is probably the cleanest festival in this list, but anyone who ever spent a day in a "water park" also found that walking with wet clothes all day is not for you clean feeling. The festival takes place in April, the hottest month of the year in Thailand and lasted for several days.

• Cheese Rolling Competition, UK

There are hundreds of years of history, Cheese Rolling Competition in Coopers Hill, Gloucestershire, rooted in prayer to bless to have a successful crop. Today, this festival is mainly for young people rolling down the hill to find cheese. After rolling, the participants covered by mud and grass, as a way to honor tradition.

• Boryeong Mud Festival, South Korea

Nothing dirty but fun as wear bikini and rolling around in mud. More than two million people around the world came to attend the Boryeong Mud Festival in South Korea every year to get dirty. Boryeong not only built up a reputation for quality products to mineral-rich mud cosmetics to manufacture that also used to attract tourists to the fun party like this.

HaLong Bay - VietNam

Halong Bay is  one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World

 Something about HaLong Bay : HaLong Bay  is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a popular travel destination, located in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam.The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes. HaLong Bay is a center of a larger zone which includes Bai Tu Long bay to the northeast, and Cat Ba islands to the southwest. These larger zones share similar geological, geographical, geomorphological, climate, and cultural characters.

Halong Bay is regarded as one of the most allured bays in the world with magnificent sceneries, so that exploring this charming place with a cruise trip should be ideal to enjoy your holiday here. This offers travelers unique experience by going through several attractions at the bay, and participating in various joyful activities onboard and off-board.

• Transport

You can go by the international cruise ships come here, if you go by plane landed at Noi Bai international airport - Ha Noi, from Ha Noi to Halong Bay 170km, you can order tickets at the train station Yen Vien at 4h55 every day or you can go by bus reputable high quality (as Hoang Long tourist,  Mai Linh tourist ..) takes about 3-4 hours.

Mai Linh bus reputable high quality (one of the bus reputable hight quality in Vietnam)

Go back in the city, you can use the taxi companies: Taxi 886 - Mong Cai (033. 886 886), HaLong (033. 62 62 62); Hon Gai (033. 84 84 84); Mai Spirit (033. 628 628) ... Visiting the Bay, you can contact chartering cruise ships in the port of Bai Chay (033. 846 592); Halong cruise terminal (033. 847 481); Hai Duong company (033. 845 042); center of Ha Long Bay (033. 844 631); Hai Au company (033. 824 779)...

• Live

Mithrin Hotel Halong is located in Bai Chay District

     Mithrin Hotel Halong is located on Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Bai Chay District, the most beautiful area of Halong. The hotel is an ideal place for tourists since it is close to other tourist attractions, harbors, or Tuan Chau Island. Moreover, the hotel offers a great panorama over the natural wonder of the world.

All the rooms of the hotel is fully equipped with air-conditioner, cable TVs, soundproofed wall, coffee/tea maker, in-room safe, hair dryer, etc. In addition, the well-trained staff is always ready to offer excellent additional services such as currency exchange, hair salon, fitness recreation, and tour assistance. Moreover, the hotel has high-speed Wi-Fi internet.

Halong Plaza Hotel is located in Bai Chay District

   Halong Plaza Hotel is located in Bai Chay District, Halong City, which is an ideal location with great view of the impressive Halong Bay.

Halong Plaza is among top hotels that have greatest capacity with up to 200 air-conditioned rooms with minibars and safes. Besides high speed internet connection mentioned above, all the rooms are equipped with the most up to date facilities like cable 37-inch LCD TV, direct dial phone, private bathroom with bathtub, handheld shower bathrobes, and makeup/shaving mirrors. Your room will be even more homely with full of necessities like coffee makers, refrigerators, irons, ironing boards, slippers, hair dryers, etc.
And many other hotels as : Novotel Hotel Halong Bay, Royal Lotus Hotel Halong, Saigon Halong Hotel, etc.

• Food and Drink

A kind of exotic snails in Halong Bay

Regarding food, there are plenty of restaurants from luxury to popular  to choose when to Ha Long. As typical restaurants Mithrin (Hung Thang, Bai Chay) Restaurant Panorama (168 Ha Long and Bai Chay) Restaurant Son Ca (Pier 98); restaurant Blue Sea (08 Le Thanh Tong); restaurant Hai Ninh (zone 3, Peach Garden); restaurant Thien Ly (Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Cua Ong) ... If you want to enjoy Halong seafood specialties  including fishes, crabs, shrimps, lobsters, oysters or sea snails, etc., you can go to sea Food restaurant (Halong road); Thu  Huong restaurants (Halong road);  Noi Nho restaurant  (Tran Hung Dao),etc.

Ngan is a mollusk species which is popular in the Northern Vietnam coastal area

Tiger shrimp in Halong Bay

• Visit

These rocks islands in Halong Bay

Halong Bay has a total of 1,969 including 1,921 rock islands,   with of islands a height of about 200m. These rocks islands have many different  shapes lay  on the heaving sea, in a small area of the Gulf.


You can sign up for the cruise ship to visit the islands in Halong Bay as:

Signature Cruise

  Signature Cruise has 12 cabins which able to provide accommodation to maximum 40 passengers. Each cabin of Signature Cruise is decorated with luxurious interior under a deluxe white color, and equipped with adequate amenities to offer most satisfied experience to its passengers.

Above Paloma Cruise you can enjoy beautiful views around

  Paloma Cruise has 18 cabins in different sizes and quality. It consists of 8 Superior and 6 Deluxe twin cabins (13 to 15m2), 2 Honeymoon suites (17m2 with balcony for see sighting), and 2 large Family Suites with balcony specifically designed for family traveling. All the cabins are equipped with adequate amenities of a 4 star hotel.  
There are many other cruise ships to you choose :  Emotion Cruise, Glory Cruise, Jasmine Cruise, etc.

  Tuan Chau Island is a large   land island about 3 km ² , close to shore, there are villages and sparsely populated. Since 2001, a major road was built connecting the island to the mainland. A combination of entertainment services, entertainment and hotel complex, restaurant and beach luxury building.

Tuan Chau island resort

Co To Island

 
  Co To Island is probably the most beautiful and romantic beach of Vietnam with transparent blue sea, white smooth sand, golden sunshine, and green mountains and forest.

ThienCung Cave has a unique system of stalactites and stalagmites with different forms and shapes

   Thien Cung Cave (Heavenly Palace Cave) is located in the southwest of Halong Bay, 4 km away from Dau Go Island, which is considered the most beautiful primitive cave of the Bay. The cave is 10,000 square meters with complicated interior structure, many floors, and high ceiling. The cave becomes famous thanks to a unique system of stalactites and stalagmites with different forms and shapes.

Exploring Thien Cung Cave’s craggy cliffs is no easy task. Going through a narrow door, you would be surprised by a large space inside the cave that the further you walk, the more beautiful formation of stalactites come to your eyes.

Some other photos of Halong Bay :

Sung Sot Cave