Dalat Countryside Private Tour und Wasserfall

Truly an experience! We had a private VIP tour with just Mui, our tour guide, and Tien, our driver. Mui and Tien were like the uncles I always wanted in my life. We started off the tour learning about Mahayana Buddhism and what the three bows represented in a prayer (To Buddha, Dharma (Lady Buddha) for happiness, and to community). After the temple, we drove to the Weasel Coffee Farm but made a pitstop to the succulent nursery. What we thought the coffee farm would be the highlight of the tour ended up being one of many more highlights. Our next stop was Thien An Cricket Farm where we saw the crickets and silk worms. We tried fried crickets cooked in oil and lemongrass with a side of rice wine. What I will never from this experience was when I introduced Mui and the lovely people at Thien An a Vietnamese song, "tơ tằm" by Nhu Quynh. We sang several Vietnamese songs together and it made so warm to know I could reconnect with my roots. We continued the silk worm tour when we made a stop at Namban Silk where we got to see how the cocoon of the silk worms were processed in the factory. Workers could only be in the factory at a max of 4 hours due to how hot it was in the factory. The rest of tour included Elephant Waterfalls, Linh An Pagoda, and visiting a local family in the outskirts. The local family are part of the K'ho ethnic as we noticed the happiness of their lives living in simplicity and harmony. What a day and what an experience it was, I truly enjoyed the tour and highly recommend Mui and Tien!

Amazing experience. We were two people and we had our driver Thien and our guide Mui. We got to see all places scheduled in the tour and even some extra stops. Best way to understand why Da Lat is the agricultural powerhouse of Viet Nam. Mui explained a lot to us (especially silk making was fascinating) but also gave us time to explore and enjoy the sites on our own.

Our day was packed with so much love and happiness and knowledge. This tour is packed with so much. Visited a beautiful temple and was taught how to correctly pray the Buddhist way so we could show our respect. We visited a rose, succulent and gerbera farm, saw rice wine being made, and learned and tried weazel coffee as well as silk factory where we learnt the lifecycle and process of silk. We climbed inside the largest statue of female Buddha and reflected while visiting elephant falls. We ate pupa, crickets and stopped for a delicious pho for lunch. All of this made for a perfect day however the whole day included meeting and talking with the most beautiful people of Dalat. This tour would not be half as good in a big group. We are so blessed to have taken this tour and to meet Mui and Tien.