I have now progressed two days from Hanoi. I have ridden quite exactly 200 km from there. Depending on the source I have something in the order of 450 km to go to Hue. Today I had my first puncture during this tour. Luckily the puncture happened in front of a bicycle repair shop so I had to walk the bike only about 50 m. The cost of tire repair was 10 000 Dong, about 40 euro cents. I am now in a small place called Tinh Gia. Tomorrow i plan to ride to Vinh, or a...

Here I am back in Hanoi. I visited Halong Bay Yesterday. Due to some glitch in the tour booking, (I thought that I had booked a two-day tour) I only had a one day visit. I really enjoyed the place, and could have spent there even more than the five hours I did. I took a fair amount of pictures, some of which I hope to be able to upload here some time later. I originally planned to start cycling today, but I felt a bit fluish this morning, so I decided to stay he...

This is just a quick update that I have arrived at Hanoi safe and sound. As I told in my previous entry I took the bus from Wuzhou to Nanning. I spent one night and day in Nanning and continued in the evening by train to Pingxiang. I had to stay two nights in Pingxiang as my bike arrived there the next day. I utilized the available time by washing some clothes and doing some sight-seeing there. After those two nights i climbed to the saddle and cycled through fr...

As I predicted yesterday, I decided to take a bus to Nanning tomorrow. As Wuzhou is an intersting little town I decided to stay here for a second night and see a little bit around. Wuzhou is about 4000 years old town and still an important inland harbour town as it is located in the joining of two big rivers. It has even been the Capital of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces in the past. The city is famous for its several arcade buildings that were built late 19th ...

I am finally at a computer and the blog plaform is on (Yesterday I was at a computer too, but Kilroy blogs decided to be down while I was up). So - I have been cycling now for six days since Shenzhen and three days since Guangzhou. During last three days I progressed about 280 km. As the continuous urban area ended at about 50 km from Guangzhou I have been enjoying the scenery of rice fields, bamboos, bananas and many other fruits, vegetables and trees. The rout...