The staff at the resort turned out to be extremely friendly and helpful. As an experienced motorcyclist I am in the habit of checking my mode of transport long before I leave, just to make sure I am not faced with sudden surprises. On return from the trek I looked over the scooter and found the rear tyre to be flat. One of the staff gave me a pump to inflate the tyre and pointed me in the right direction to get it fixed. The repair shop was about 1 km away but ...

After breakfast a group of six of us, consisting of two mid twenty year old Dutch girls, a young Chinese-Canadian couple and our guide, left for the Pu Luong Nature Reserve and our destination for the day about 50 km away. Just before lunch we stopped and parked our scooters under a house and started a trek along the road out of the village which soon after turned into narrow mountain track crossing a river via a rickety bamboo bridge. We continued until we ...

Do it yourself, or … don’t do it yourself - that is the question. I have been to Vietnam several times and have nearly always made up my own itinerary as I have valued the sense of “freedom” doing it this way gives. However, there are some disadvantages in going it alone. For example you could be traveling from A to B and find out later that you passed a fantastic spot where not many people go to as it is “off the beaten track”...