Category: Vietnam
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Final stats and thoughts on biking Vietnam
We didn’t see a single cycle tourist in Vietnam, and that was both a surprise and a shame. We expected to see at least some intrepid Dutch or German cyclists, but there were none! Vietnam is a pretty cool place to cycle tour. It has a huge number of small roads with little traffic, good…
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A few days in Dalat
We stayed three nights in Dalat. Probably from our life in Colorado, we expected a cute little mountain town, but it’s actually a pretty big city, about 300,000 population and quite busy. Dalat is at about 5,000 feet elevation, so it’s much cooler than the coastal areas, which was great. Southeast Asia was in the…
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Last day cycling in Vietnam!
A month goes pretty quickly, and we’ve only scratched the surface of seeing Vietnam, but our 30-day visa will expire in a few days and so we need to get outta here! We both feel like we’ve gotten to know a bit about Vietnam in the last weeks, but we also know there’s a lot…
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Life’s a Beach x3
We followed the coastline for a few days now, from Life’s a Beach to Tuy Hoa and then Van Gia Town, leaving the coast sometimes as the route dictated. Some of the time we were avoiding riding on AH1, the busy main highway from north to south, and that brought us over some hills but…
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Life’s a Beach!
We are starting the last push down the eastern coast of Vietnam, which will end in a few days in Nha Trang, where we are planning on taking a bus to Dalat to spend a few days before taking another bus to Ho Chi Minh City (also known as Saigon) where we will fly to…
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Duc Pho to Phu My, carrying a watermelon!
While our mapping app takes care of making routes on small roads between two points, sometimes we decide that we want to go another way. The original way the mapping app suggested we go from Duc Pho to Phu My was up in the hills (the blue line) on small track, but it really looked…
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Navigating Vietnam: On to Đức Phố
This entire self-guided trip would be impossible without GPS and modern mapping and navigation tools. We are using the basic route of a commercial bike tour for our framework, but that tour description only lists destination towns, for the good reason that they don’t want to give people like us the entire route for free!…
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Rice and Weddings!! Leaving Hoi An
If there were two themes for today, they were rice and weddings, although not in the usual sense. First..rice. As we’ve traveled south, the rice is now ready for harvest and we saw rice being harvested and also drying by the side of the roadsides, in courtyards, on drive ways and in people’s yards. Rice…
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Hoi An
Our initial impression of Hoi An was of absolute tourist craziness, but the next day we got to see some of its quiet charms, in addition to seeing more of the tourist craziness. We went out before noon to stroll around the streets, and there were far fewer tourists out so that was a relief.…
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Over Hai Van Pass to Hoi An
We planned our stop in Lang Co so that we could start the climb over Hai Van Pass in the morning. Alas, we tarried and ate a leisurely breakfast, starting the climb at about 10AM when the heat of the day had already started. A lot of eloquent words have been written about Hai Van…