Canyoning - Not Recommended for Lifeguards

Today, after numerous recommendations as one of the best things you can do in Dalat, I tried canyoning for the first time - so much fun! For those of you that don't know what it is, it consists of abseiling down waterfalls and cliffs into water (normally a river). A crazy rush, lots of fun, but scary as hell for someone trained to point out hazards. That aside, I'm alive, escaped with only a few bruises and can now say I have abseiled down 25m cliffs, slid down a waterfall (both by myself and in a group), jumped off a 12m cliff into the pool at the bottom of a waterfall and then abseiled down an actual waterfall and jumped in at the bottom. Crazy, fun day, though i'm not sure I'd be able to do it again lol. Checked off the the list and moving on :)

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A stairwell in Crazy House

Crazy House

This isn't the main part of it (it was hard to get a picture of) but it gives you an idea of what this place is like. Basically it's some architect's fantastical dream house that looks like she was on shrooms when she designed it. It's a weirdly shaped house with tunnels for hallways and rooms (you can stay in this place for around $30 a night) named "eagle room" and "bear cave".

Man-Made Lake

This enormous lake is man made - it was damned so that farmers could use the water for their crops.

Wandering through the minority village

The Black Mushroom Farm

So because mushrooms need cool weather (Dalat is quite cool because it's in the mountains, but gets hot during the day) they grow them in these little huts with grass roofs. Hundreds of plastic bags filled with soil and fertilizer hang from the ceiling and get watered and sprout mushrooms from slits cut in the bags (a couple of slits ensures bigger mushrooms vs many slits). The mushrooms are then harvested, washed in soapy water, dried in the sun and then sent off to be sold. The leftover white bags filled with soil are then sent to a nearby farm to be used to grow white mushrooms. I am now a wealth of random knowledge lol.

Us making the best Spring Rolls I've ever had

Nothing to do with me of course, someone else made the filling.