Day 23 13 May 2013 Quy Nhon to Hue Did something against my principles and got lucky more than once. Now that got your attention, I guess. It all started this morning. I had loaded up the bike and pushed the bike over to the service station right next door to the hotel I was staying in. During the filling up stage a lady walked over, looked at me and pointed to the ground. Petrol was pouring out of the bike. I hastily turned off the petrol tap and looked we...

Day 22 12 May 2013 Dieu Tri (near Quy Nhon) Flying down a mountain. Distance and speed have a very different meaning in Vietnam. First of all Speed. I have already spoken about the city traffic. Now for the country. Traffic still travels around 40-60 km per hour. The main reason is that the roads are hardly ever smooth but full of bumps and lumps. Travelling on a 110 cc bike seems small but in fact is already bigger than the norm. Most of the day it is me who...

Day 21 May 11 2013 Ben Luc- Saigon-Phan Thiet A bad night in a hot room. The ceiling fan worked fine but blew hot air around; the only cooling was supplied by myself by perspiration and moving air. At 6 30am I was ready to roll and arrived at the bike shop in Saigon by 8 am thanks to the GPS. The distance being 30 km took me more than an hour, although there was less traffic than usual. The workshop was open and two young guys went over the bike replacing the ...

Day 20 10 May 2013 Vinh Long – Ben Loc The market in Vinh Long was very interesting this morning. Being on the river it offered an enormous variety of fish some of them I had never seen before. Besides fish there was also a choice of snakes, turtles, frogs and the like. I filmed a lady who was casually chatting with her neighbor will preparing her frogs for sale. So what was she doing? She grabbed a frog out of a bag, with scissors cut off its head and...

Day 19 May 9 2013 Ho Chi Min City(Saigon) to Vinh Long A hot shower and a steam bath I wanted to give the bike a decent test run before setting of on the journey north. I learned a few things today. How far is say 140 km? That's nothing right. Yes, but not here. It is like travelling on a 50 cc moped from Brisbane to Melbourne or Amsterdam to Spain, not via the main road but via bike tracks. I was glad that I had brought my new GPS and had purchased a Vietna...