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| Nestled at an elevation of around 1500m among the hills of the Lang
Bian Plateau, the city of DA LAT is Vietnam's premier hill station, a
beguiling amalgam of mazy cobbled streets and picturesque churches,
spliced unfortunately with dingy East European-style constructions and
touristic kitsch. In 1897, the Governor-General of Indochina ordered the
founding of a convalescent hill station here, where Saigon's hot-under-the-collar
colons could recharge their batteries, enjoy the bracing alpine chill,
and perhaps even partake in a day's game-hunting. By tacit agreement
during the American War, both Hanoi and Saigon refrained from bombing
the city and it remains much as it was half a century ago, a great place
to chill out, literally and metaphorically. |
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