North from Saigon

So yesterday we caught a plane from Phu Quoc back to Saigon. The weather just wasn't letting up, the storms were getting stronger and more consistent and we found ourselves stuck close to the room. We rented a scooter a few days ago to try and get around the island but after we navigated the scattered brick path from our hotel and found the road to be nothing more than rutted out, wet red clay we turned back. So due to the weather conditions we had pretty much exhausted the island.

And now it's seven a.m. a day after we caught our flight and we're about to get on a bus for a six hour ride up north to the city of Dalat. At dinner last night we got to talking to a young ex-pat who's been here for a year and told us that there wasn't much to see there but we're going anyway. Maybe we'll only be there for a day or two before heading north again but we're going none the less. Supposedly it's rich with French Colonial architecture set mid-way up the mountains. So why not go?