Dulat- I miss Alice!

We arrived in Dulat early morning to find the temperature to be cool which I was so happy about. We were picked up by a shuttle and driven through really pretty countryside and taken to our hostel which turned out to be really nice. Our room even had a balcony. We dumped our stuff and headed off to explore Dulat. We first walked to the lake (where I didn't sweat the whole time). The lake was beautiful

and as we started walking round the lake we had a little follower:

At first we thought she belonged to someone but when she kept following us we weren't so sure. She followed us all the way round the lake to the flower garden so we decided to adopt her. We named her Alice after our other holiday buddy who couldn't be with us this time. Everyone thought she belonged to us so we went with it.







The flower garden was lovely and Alice had a wonderful time.

It was a bit strange as there were loads of odd statues.

Lucy couldn't find her wine no matter how hard she looked.

Then we walked to the old railway station where we had coffee in one of the carriages so Alice could rest.

We then went to the crazy house. Which is an oddly designed hotel.

After which we came to the heartbreaking realisation that we couldn't keep Alice...so we tried to run away! It didn't work. She followed us. We then realised Alice was a boy. We decided to still call him Alice in honour of our holiday buddy.

So we went to have dinner where he fell asleep under the seat and we crept out of the restaurant and left him. Sad times.

Next day we caught a bus to Thien Vien Truc Lam temple. This was really peaceful.

There was also a lovely lake.

We then went to the night market which wasn't as great as we thought. It was full of clothes and flowers. We then had dinner in a restaurant that had tyres all over the place and went to bed as we had a very early start the next day but not before secretly looking for Alice to see if she was ok.

I liked Dulat. It was colder then the rest of Vietnam and prettier and had lovely greenery. However, I do miss Alice!!