Vietnam Hotels & Reservation Services Tour Package

In 1893, Dr Alexandre Yersin, a protégé of Louis Pasteur decided to leave his ship docked at Nha Trang to explore the central highlands of Vietnam and stumbled across Dalat. Quickly he spread the word about this evergreen filled region dotted with lakes and waterfalls. In 1912 when the city had established itself it was already popular with Europeans as a cool retreat from the sweltering heat of the coastal plains and the Mekong Delta.

Those early tourists would amuze themsleves boating on the lake, playing tennis, stalokng the forests in search of big game and since the 1920, playing a round or two of golf. Many of the French colonialists built vacation homes in Dalat and these villas remain standing today in all their architectural splendour though lack the tender loving care of their
original owners.

Dalat stands 1,500 m above sea-level in the Lang Bain Highlands of Central Vietnam, 320 kms northeast of Ho Chi Minh City.