Da Lat - The Paris of Vietnam

The next stop on our trip took us to the intriguing town of Da Lat.  The Vietnamese call it "the Paris of Vietnam" as it is supposedly the most romantic place in the country.  They even built a replica of the Eiffel Tower that lights up and is a functioning radio tower.  We enjoyed the bromance by going on a country tour and trying to limit our yelling at each other.

Here's a creative photo of Andy stunting over the country side.

We stopped by a cricket farm and each ate a cricket.  Andy treated himself to three crickets as he enjoyed the soft, mothball tasting insects.

After the cricket farm, we trekked down to the bottom of a waterfall.  If you took one wrong step, you could easily fall on your way down.  We just barely fussed more than the 70 year old Malaysian couple behind us about how scary and dangerous the hike was.

 

Above is a photo of Max doing a corny pose in front of an unimportant religious statue.  It's not really blog worthy, but check out how Brody Jenneresque that hair is looking.  Also note that this is after going in a waterfall and absent of any hair products. Damn!

The next stop was at a pagoda with a giant sitting Buddha in the back.  After getting up to the right nipple, Andrew was told that it was not meant to be climbed on.

Later, we stopped by "The Crazy House."  It is a large hotel that has a crazy design.  It was listed as one of the top ten craziest buildings in the world by some crazy magazine.  Andy captured the above panoramic shot from the top of a crazy staircase.

At night, we enjoyed a feast with some other people we met travelling.  We ate Vietnamese food Chinese style (sharing entrees) like Americans (ate and drank a ton) and paid Dutch.  The total bill for the nine of us was around $40.

After dinner, we went to a karaoke bar.  Andy and Andrew belted out a passionate version of "All My Ex's Live in Texas."  Our friends liked it so much that they let the guys sing almost half of the song before they switched the song to "Achy Breaky Heart."  To cap the night off, we went to a late night club with about fifty people working and ten customers.  The dance floor was being dominated by two gay Vietnamese men, but this didn't prevent Andrew from busting out his 2013 dance.  This dance consists of him slowly crawling on all fours while turning his head back and forth like a hawk.  Romance was in the air.