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Vietnam Motorbike Adventure

11 Friday Jan 2013

Posted by glenngrantham in Boom, Holiday, Khe Sahn, Terror, Vietnam

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Recently I had the good fortune to head over to Vietnam with a mate of mine and embark on a Motorcycle Adventure through the jungle villages on the border of Laos.

We travelled with a group called Hoi An Motorcycle Tours and were appointed a guide by the name of Kiwi Pete. They supplied us with a couple of Russian Minsk motorcycles which I am unsure were of post war vintage and introduced us to our mechanic Tein who we were to become extremely close with.

Then away we launched on a 4 Day DMZ Loop through the far reaches of Vietnam which were definitely off the beaten path.

I had lunch with Ee Kong who is the King of the Katu people and he insisted that I had 6 rice wines (straight rocket fuel) before I jumped back on the bike for the afternoon! Only to go Off-Road when I missed a turn later that same day!

We travelled ‘Highway 1’ in the middle of a torrential downpour with 100kph cross winds….the second deadliest strip of road/km in the world.

We hammered down Mountain passes on wet tyres with no brakes (and I mean no brakes) on numerous occasions.

We visited Khe Sahn and shook our heads at the futility of the War.

We travelled through a mud slush valley to get to a town that would not have seen one hundred caucasians in the past 5 decades so we could sleep the night.

We received a guided tour of the war tunnels from a tiny ‘mute’ Vietnamese gentleman who was born in the tunnels and spent the first 5 years of his life underground.

AND I have the lasting memory of climbing noisily up the mountain side on my Minsk to be met by hundreds of smiling kids waving frantically at me as I zoomed through their little village like I was some sort of returning war hero!

Vietnam is something that will stay with me forever and this trip is something you should have on your bucket list.ImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImage

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