last night in the evening I still went with one of my guides to a boxing tournament; apparently he used to be the champion of the province and he is now training others. He is only 24 years old... Anyway after the boxing we went for dinner: hotpot and warm ricewine. It was really nice! I decided that I would go mountainbiking today. They have a nice tour in the north of Dalat through the pine forrest over the mountains on single trails. Sounds pretty interesting and oh it was! I got a new guide, he does this tour 3 times a week... And yet I was in way better shape than him, on the first slope he already had to get off his bicycle and walk the rest up, ok I admit that it was steep but I wasn't having my trailer so it shouldn't be a problem! We passed some very nice scenery and it was challenging from time to time! Just imagine driving on a small path through the forrest in the middle of nowhere and then at once the view opens up and reveals a valley where some locals are growing vegetables! Simply amazing...

Anyway we had lunch on the way, the lunch was not as nice as yesterday because we were only the two of us and so the bread was already made; there were still some bananas for starter and dessert though... After lunch he asked me whether I wanted to take the normal way or a longer route; guess which one I picked. He said that it was a lot more tricky and tried to change my mind but I was having a great time and didn't want to go back this soon. He was getting a lot of problems to keep up with me so I slowed down and tried to stay in his wheel but when we got back to civilization I was tired of driving slowly and tried to get him to race. It wasn't really a race :(... 

Anyway it was a great ride! 

In the evening he took me to a metal workshop so that I could replace the attachment of my trailer which badly suffered from dragging the trailer up the mountains...

During my tour around the city I stopped at a couple of travel agencies to see what is worth visiting and doing around here. I found an adventureous travel agency that only worked with part-time students. They had a relatively cheap canyoning tour going on for today so I wanted to join them. Apparently it was the same place as where I laid down 2 days ago and took the 'sweat picture'. After a short walk through the jungle we arrived at the practise wall; a rock formation af about 6 meter high to learn the basics of abseiling (=rappel). I'd done it quite a few times before but it was nice to check it again. The two other people: an Englishman who lived in Vietnam and his son were pretty new at this. After trying it a couple of times we were all ready for the next one! This one was higher, about 20 meter, but it was still dry so a nice one to do some jumping... Now time for something different: swimming! The water was ice cold so just swimming would not have been fun, but we got to try out the strength of the water. A few minutes under a very strong hot shower later we could go down a natural slide. The first time felt so good that I wanted to go a second time; the guide laught and said that I could go a second time but I would have to take a different position so I went backwards. Quite frightening to see rocks passing by an inch :P Next was another rappel with in the end a jump into the water. Nothing too spectacular and time for lunch! First a big bag of breads came out of the backpack followed by a can of tuna, vegetables, sausages, cheese, jam, salt & pepper, apples, pineapple, longan, bananas, mangoes and I'm sure that I'm still forgetting something. It was very good! 

So now we had our warm-up and the lunch so we could go to the real deal in the afternoon. First there was another natural slide and we went down in a train, backwards, sitting up, ... Quite some fun but I bruised my ass :P. Now it was time for the real canyoning: abseiling straight down a waterfall, the beginning was ok; very slippery but it was still good. Then it became steeper and the water was hitting me everywhere so I couldn't see anything anymore. A very nice experience and when I came down I could go back up and go for a second time! Ow yes, I had fun!

The last activity was a jump from a cliff... The first jump was from 10 meter and it felt great but one of the guides jumped from a bit higher so I wanted to do the same. 

In the evening I walked into another cyclist, he was doing the same thing but the other way around: he started from china and is making his way down to cambodia! It was very nice to chat with him and we exchanged 'must-do roads' and 'try to avoid' roads!