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Moor stunning Pic's...Brilliant...Keep 'em coming ... :thumbup: We'll have done trip no. 2 before I finish this write up! Only one more day to go I think. We're planning on returning next February/March to explore the north east region. Amongst other things we'll be riding Ma Pi Leng pass which is ...

Day 9 - Cat Ba Island & Ha Long Bay This post is going to be more photos than writeup. We took another rest day while on Cat Ba Island because we wanted to take a boat over to Ha Long Bay. We got up, looked out of the balcony from 7 floors up to check on the bikes and they weren't there. Someone...

Day 8 of our tour of North Vietnam. Hanoi - Hai Phong - Cat Ba Island We had planned a well-deserved 'rest evening' for the previous day, staying in Hanoi before setting off again the next day. But after arriving back late due to the Minsk' calling it a day, that went out the window. We'd got back, ...

Day 7 - Thac Ba Lake to Hanoi At least that was the plan. But it sorta went tits up halfway through as you will see... Woke up after quite a good nights sleep considering we were in a stilt house, and even more so when you factor in the strong winds and thunderstorm that had passed overhead in the m...

Good point Carl, we definitely felt like the odd ones out for not having at least one cow slung over the rear seat.

Day 6 - SaPa to Thac Ba. I was not feeling great this day, a dodgy tummy mainly that was probably due to poor hygiene in some of the places we were eating during the day. We'd had a nice meal in SaPa though in the evening but I retired early. While I was in the room last night I got a knock on the d...

Day 5 - Lai Chau to SaPa Last night we'd stayed at the nicest hotel on the tour so far, the Lan Anh in Lai Chau. It's situated halfway up one side of a valley, up a ridiculously steep driveway that seems to go on forever, and overlooks a modern bridge spanning a wide river. http://i284.photobucket.c...

No probs, more to follow, it just takes a while to get all the photos sorted mainly...

love these type of shots being in telecoms myself. must be a bit tricky to sort out? I don't think they sort it if something goes wrong, they just run a new line. I have another photo somewhere of a junction box halfway along the gap between posts (I'm sure there's a term for that) where they had r...

Day 4 - Dien Bien Phu to Lai Chau "I bought you a present!" An nice lazy start today as we were only planning to do 100km or so after yesterday's 260km trek. Last night after a few beers Del and me decided to improve Phil's Minsk. We found a late night shop tag sold kitchen sinks and toile...

Day 3 - Bac Yen - Son La - Dien Bien "All day long, Del-little-boy talking the sh1t.." (Pinky, April 2014) We got a reasonable night's sleep last night at Hotel Tam Dong, but the hotel was pretty poor. It wasn't clean and the mattresses were rock solid. I woke up unable to move my neck for...

I'll sort some videos out, thanks for checking it for me.

Can someone tell me if you're able to see the videos via the links in the post? If not, I'll have to dig the originals off my phone and upload somewhere else.

Some random craziness... Bamboo scaffolding... http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll7/firestorm_996/Bikes/Nambusters%202014/P3290194.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll7/firestorm_996/Bikes/Nambusters%202014/P3290197.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll7/firestorm_996/Bikes/Nambusters%202...

No probs Carl, I'll keep posting up a summary for each day with photos, might take a few days but the best is yet to come. It was an incredible trip, we plan on going back next year for a week or so to visit the north east, it was very easy to put it all together too.