I am now suffering flu, but despite that I am again 200 km furter south. Had to replace rear tire today. Hotel is a hour-hotel but Has WLAN. (Actually was the only hotel in the town, but had also a decent restaurant.) Continuation to yestergay's entry. Today I rode about 95 km from Ky Anh, and should now have only two riding days left to Hue. Bicycle is having all kinds of issues, but today tires have been OK. Flu is much better today than it was yesterday, but ...

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...