For 22 Dollars you can get a 3 star hotel room in Hanoi, if you are unlucky without a window. You can also get a day long ride on a motorbike to the usual local tourist sides where people will try and sell you things you don’t want, need and like. OR for 22 dollars you can get a big adventure. Leaving early in the morning the hotel in Dalat I went with my two Swiss friends along an adventure I wasn’t quite prepared to.
We went together with two adventures Vietnamese guys in a natural preserve to do some abseiling into waterfalls. Yes, crazy. I know. First we learned how to rope you down on a very short hill, second we roped down a quite steep rock and as third test we went down a rock of 24 meters finishing off in a water pool. Ok. By that time I had learned to keep my legs straight and apart and my body in 90 degree to the rock. What an amazing feeling. Just never look down. Always up. Buh, just thinking of it I get adrenalin rush.
Moving from one site of the waterfall to the next was through wild bush, no path, I was imaging that snake Ka and Mogli would jump out of this jungle any minute. When we reached the first waterfall I was quite a bit nervous and asking myself what the hell I’m doing here. Well, I put myself together, went as the first one and just loved it. I had to concentrate quite a bit though at the end it is the most intoxicating feeling. We did a couple of more waterfalls, had some lunch and finished off with a slide through the so called ‘washing machine’, a truly devilish waterfall. Brrr.
I think I spent my 22 $ wisely.
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