Left Nam Cat Tien late and headed towards Dalat. Looking at the map the roads looked twisty and we were looking forward to riding as so far the scenery has been dead flat with straight roads. Not very interesting for bike riding. The idea was to stop at one of the two waterfalls but as the bikes needed an oil change and the Tet (new year) festival was approaching when most shops would be closed, we decided not to stop at the waterfalls but head straight to Dalat. Arrived in Dalat - a beautiful city at an altitude of about 1500m - found the Honda dealer and had had the bikes serviced in no time at all.
The horn on my bike was playing up so we asked the mechanic to take a look. He said that they did not deal with adventure bikes such as ours and pointed us in the direction of another shop. We went looking, but didn't find the other mechanic so we gave up, had a coffee and looked for a hotel instead.

Because of its altitude, Dalat was cooler. When we arrived here it felt similar to arriving in Ooty 4 years ago in India.
An Phu hotel looked very posh but only cost 350,000 VND (approx £12/$15) for the night.

Along with cutlery and napkins you usually get in restaurants, here you also got some plastic gloves - much like the ones you find in petrol stations. People who didn't want to wash their hands either before or after eating could use these and many people were.We had pizza to eat (no gloves) that night as we needed a change from noodles and rice. Yum.

157 kms covered / 4 hours riding