From Da Lat to Nha Trang

We left DaLat in the early morning in bright sunshine. The road was narrow, steep, bended and bumpy. Unlike the road to Ho Chi Minh that was a bit better this road took us through a kind of different landscape and scenery as it immediately started to go downwards through small villages that clinged to the mountainside. The vegetation was mainly Pine trees. Small scale farming where almost the only crops that are possible to grow in the hillsides are coffee and tea with some scattered Banana trees and red Poinsettias in between.
After 1.5 hours continous descent we came to a town on a small plain and a little while after it started downwards again, the road twisted down the mountainside and it was a magnificent view.
Coming all the way down it was big aresa with Coconut Trees and rice paddies. When the wind is blowing through a rice field you can see all the green colours you can imagine. We passed through a rice fields and Coconut Palms for a few hours through small villages and towns. The bus had to slow down all the time for motorbikes or goats or cows crossing the road. It was Saturday and we also noticed several weddings that were underway. Schoolchildren to and from school in their uniforms, The boys in blue trousers and white shirts and the girls in the traditional Ao Dai of white silk. When they were cycling they had to hold the "front panel/piece" of the dress with one hand.
Approaching the seaside the road suddenly turned in to a new motorway which took as along the coast for a while to the seaside city of Nha Trang. We stepped off the bus and straight into a hotel for $8 a night. The Hotel is ok, the room was nice and clean and the people nice.