The road out of the
train station is slippery with oil because it's being resurfaced for the big
Flower Festival. Nothing like fishtailing your bike at 64.5 kph. Got
straightened out in a hurry because the next stop on our Easy Rider tour was
straight north about 5 km to the Valley of Love. So named by university
students in 1972 who needed a place to make out. It's a love-theme park
surrounding a lake. Da Lat is the honeymoon capital of Vietnam, but even the
locals call this place tacky. Romantically-themed props and statues are
scattered every 20 paces. You sit on heart benches, walk past heart ponds,
listen to cooing lovebirds, notice heart-shaped flamingo necks, and even stroll
through a love nest! There are statues of wedding rings, naked couples (in very
conservative Vietnam!?!?!), and photo ops framed by hearts and love notes.
Really really kitschy-tacky, we wondered if this would work in Niagara Falls?
Fortunately for the
love self-starters like us there are also more overwhelming gardens to gawk at.
I mean, it's December 20 and the hills are alive with blue and red and yellow
and green all over. Enough to put the Girl over the moon, and the Guy hit a
high note.
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