We were supposed to spend only one night in Dalat, but in all we were there for almost a week, including a detour back to Saigon for two days (we left the bikes at the hotel in Dalat and took the bus). When we got back to Dalat I got food poisoning and was bed ridden for the day. From Dalat the plan was to take the new mountain road to Nha Trang on the coast. The next day, already well behind schedule, we left too late, got lost, and had to turn back. On our thir...

This journey has taken me through the whole spectrum of Vietnam in a nutshell. Ancient ruins from centuries past, breathtaking misty moutains, electric green rice paddies through the countryside, lush green jungle in the pouring rain, loud, chaotic and crowded cities, picturesque sunny coastline to minority villages from another world, high up in the mountains. Hell, I've run out of adjectives... It feels like we've skipped all the boring bits and just done the ...