Tag: Mai Chau
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Tràng An and Cute Water Buffalos
Each bike tour has it’s own rhythms, and the one we are on now, Vietnam, is no different. However, it used to be that our tours followed one method of travel, where we rode as far as we could on any given day, arriving tired and hungry, stayed overnight wherever we landed and then took…
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Bamboo Chopstick Factory and Bún chả
Our map identified an attraction about 10 miles away called the Bamboo Chopsticks Factory, which sounded interesting. Actually, it might sound every more interesting in Vietnamese: “Công Ty Chế Biến Nông Lâm Sản Đạm Mai”. Definitely not trying to pronounce that! If you want to see more pics than mine, you can find some in…
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Onward from Hanoi – back on the bike!
Currently there are roughly 6.5 million motorbikes and scooters on Hanoi’s roads. The use of bicycles, once the dominant transport mode in the city, decreased dramatically as motorbikes and cars became more popular: in 1995, 47% of journeys were made by bicycle; in 2008, the figure had dropped to only 3%. The figure now must…