Yesterday, we decided to add a little risk to our travel itinerary... and went abseiling and canyoning along the Datanla River just outside of DaLat. Abseiling, according to dictionary.com is to "descend at the end of a rope". Canyoning on the other hand is to to "jump into fast mountain streams for traversing gullies, rapids, and falls on one's back". That is exactly what we did. Our guides Diep and Tao were great. Diep, was a bit of a daredevil and took any chance he could to show off for us. At one point, he jumped off a 25m waterfall that we had just descended by rope and safely landed in the pool below. It was really cool.
Kelly says that it was pretty much as exciting as jumping in and out of helicopters. We were buzzed on adrenaline most of the day.
Today is our last day in Da Lat. We're taking it easy this morning, and will probably rent mountain bikes this afternoon. Tonight we'll try the night bus to Saigon. We're sort of hiding out in the internet cafe, trying to avoid Easyrider guides and small children who keep trying to steal our strawberries and smack our bums. It was cute for the first 5 mins... then got bad enough we had to find a new spot to eat breakfast.
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"Steal some strawberries" is the new "Happy graduation" I guess.
I looked up random pictures of abseiling and canyoning and am envious. I'm so glad you've been having a good time. Am very much waiting with anticipation to see your pictures and hear stories first hand.
Shannon
Butt-smacking? Is this some cultural custom I don't understand? Or is it just that you guys have such smackable bottoms?
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