Coming Down from the Mountains

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We left Dalat on a much more sunny day with a short coach ride, before jumping on the bikes for a long descent down Ngoan Muc Pass and through the countryside in the valley below.

Terraced Fields Around Dalat
	There was interest wherever we stopped
The Ngoan Muc Pass
	There were pestering vendors at many of the stops, but this girl was one of the few who spoke English, and was a lot more laid-back than the others
	With so much water coming down from the mountains, hydroelectricity is an obvious source of power
The Plains at the Bottom of the Pass
Like many rivers around the region, this one was swollen well above its normal level
Religions are no longer persecuted, and we passed Christian temples and graveyards amongst others
The Cham Towers at Po Klong Garai
	One of the original peoples of the land, the Cham were overrun by other peoples over the centuries.  These towers were built in the 13th century, when the Cham were still in the ascendancy

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