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AllieMark: A familiar icon from home on the road to Dalat
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AllieMark: At a roadside stop, Jodi contemplates water buffalo
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AllieMark: The water buffalo contemplate us
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AllieMark: Victor shows Paul and Jodi a coffee plant
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AllieMark: Coffee beans - the red ones are called cherries, and are nearly ripe
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AllieMark: Overlooking Dalat, the many white buildings in the distance are greenhouses - many cooler-weather plants and flowers are grown here
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AllieMark: Graves are elaborately decorated
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AllieMark: We had lunch at this colonial home-turned-restaurant
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AllieMark: It was admittedly odd to see a bit of Bavaria in Vietnam
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AllieMark: Interesting art inside
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AllieMark: A passion fruit shake with our many many course lunch
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AllieMark: Allie checking out a papaya tree
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AllieMark: Poppies growing in the garden of Bao Dai's summer palace
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AllieMark: Victor shows us a map commemorating a reunified Vietnam
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AllieMark: Bao Dai's bedroom
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AllieMark: Garden at Bao Dai's summer palace in Dalat
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AllieMark: Allie looking across Bao Dai's garden from his private balcony
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AllieMark: The summer palace was built in the 1930's
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AllieMark: Framed view of the evergreen trees
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AllieMark: The emperor's bathroom - note the toilet and bidet. He spoke better French than Vietnamese
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AllieMark: Paul posing at request of Vietnamese girl - they love blondes!
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AllieMark: Above the Dalat market
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AllieMark: Group photo in Dalat market next to foxshit coffee vendors
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AllieMark: Allie testing silk colors - Mark liked this one
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AllieMark: Ann testing silk colors
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AllieMark: Allie contemplates becoming a Buddhist monk
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AllieMark: The lake in Dalat is drained as they are building a new bridge this year
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AllieMark: Paul the Brave tries the 'bird's nest' drink, made with actual bird nest
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AllieMark: Vacationing in the modern age - catching up on email at the Dalat airport while awaiting our flight to Saigon