Zen Cafe recommended hiring a guide  – which turned out to be the right thing… Today we got everything from waterfalls to Zen monks, from the King’s summer house to a Salvador Dali type of „Crazy House“. And we had a long chat to Axel, the German who owns both the Zen Cafe and the Zen Lakeside Appartments – an amazing Swiss Cottage style place by a lake a few miles away from Da Lat. That certainly helped us to get an „everyday perspective“ on life in Vietnam.

A day full of crossroads… culturally as well as literary… Let the pictures speak for themselves.