Left our hotel around 9am said our emotional goodbye to Chow nice hug and a picture with the group. Said bye to the dutch family we had been with also through Chow. Chow would still ring us through the day seeing how we were getting on. I had a scare I left my blue card for my bike in Bac Kan when getting my bike fixed so had to urgently arrange for it to go to 'Mr Tony' in Hanoi as we were heading there tonight and I couldn't sell my bike at the end of the month...

Despite Mr Chow saying we would wake up with a fresh head, I think we all felt last night a bit! Breakfast and then out to see the Sunday market. Food as per was awesome we had some street food, walked around and then sat down in the market place for some sit down food - taste like s*** but still we felt part of the village ha! We then went on the road cruising, some of the views were again it may sound boring but surreal! A picture of me, Bas, Guus and Willem I ...

Woke up on a rock hard bed, several times throughout the night ha! Wasn't complaining at all, just grateful we could stay here. We all surfaced around half 7, again - these people don't speak a word of English. Woke up to a breakfast of noodles with tea to drink. Incredible how they could make 4 complete strangers feel at home when we can't even talk to each other! We sorted our bags and sorted our wet stuff separate ready for the laundry at the lucky hotel we wo...

First day so far no problem with the bikes, Willem's started fine first thing so all good! After breakfast, hit the road to a waterfall on Ba Be National Park and it was awesome got some quality pics and videos. Then we ventured to a cave, THEN the adventure for the day started! The roads were HIDEOUS, cracks everywhere stones that could rip tyres we were going over when going uphill at a stupid angle. Guus' bike wasn't enjoying it and at one point just had to tu...

Straight to the bike garage to sort my bike out! Mechanic said come back around 2pm so we walked around main Bac Kan town centre looked at few shops trying to get some bargains but nothing caught our eye really. Stopped off in a coffee shop the Vietnamese coffee is seriously good. Dropped by to see how my bike was getting on, it was done! Chuffed is an understatement all went well cost me 300,000 dong so about 11 quid dunno what he done to it but it works fine no...