We've been Holed up in Dalat for four days now which is one too many. We had scheduled a bus ride back to the coast for this morning but canceled it last night. If you have'nt heard there have been some really hellaceous storms on this side of the world. Only three days ago a typhoon barrelled through the Phillipines and as of the last time I checked there were at least two-hundred and forty dead. When it reached the South China Sea it picked up strength again and hit the cental coast of Vietnam pretty hard. So far there are twenty-four poeple dead and more than a few unaccounted for. Luckily for us we're further inland and at a higher elevation but we still got an idea of what this thing was like. The weather yesterday was just furious and from the inside of our room, five stories up we could hear the wind ripping through the streets. A tree fell on a woman while taking her kids to school on their scooter and a couple of back-packers new to the hotel said they passed a car with the top crushed in only a few kilometers outside of town.
So just to play it safe we put off our ride out for one day. Tomorrow we're heading back to the coast to Nah Trang. This is probably going to be nothing more than a pit-stop before heading north to Hoi An which is an area that took the brunt of the typhoon. I'm curious and a bit anxious to see what's happened out there.
And the picture is just something I took during a storm in Phu Quoc. It has no relation to the storm I just referenced.
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