23 Oct 2005

Easy Rider - Day 2

I had a run around part of Lak Lake in the morning, much to the amusement of several locals - probably thinking "Who is this western weirdo that refuses the offer of moto ride?!"

We set off towards the capital of the Central Highlands (Buon Ma Thuot) - check out the sun protection! A stone mason was hard at work chipping large boulders into small segments, and at a pottery factory we watched people shaping cement into large plant pots. Everything was done by hand - mixing the cement, packing the sand, and shaping the bowls...so much slower than production would be with modern machinery!






After checking into the hotel, we went out to Dray Sap Falls on the bikes, and had a short walk into the waterfalls with Hung. We had an 'interesting' lunch we'd picked up from a local bakery - which vaguely resembled pizza bread and cake. Sort of... :) PD & I then walked through some "small jungle" and bean plantations for a few kilometres to another waterfall, where Loc & Hung picked us up.





In the evening we were left to eat dinner by ourselves - feeling adventurous we ordered something from a street vendour...had absoloutely no idea what we got but it was really pretty good! Some kind of noodle soup with meat, spring onion and mint leaves, and some chicken with rice...only bad thing is we don't know what its called to order it again!

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