The Birth of Travel
Perched high within the Southern Central Highlands amidst valleys, lakes and waterfalls, Vietnam’s Dalat is thought for its mountain scenery and delightfully cool climate. Originally inhabited by the Lat and Ma hill tribes (Da Lat which means “stream of the Lat Folks”), who now live in close by Lat and Hen Villages, Dalat grew to become a holiday resort for commanders who bored with the tropical Vietnamese climate in the course of the French Colonial period. It remains Vietnam’s “Le Petit Paris” and its “metropolis of everlasting spring”, its colonial mansions and over 2000 remaining French villas still reflecting its …