This post from our recent trip to Vietnam got lost. I resurrected it from my phone's SD card and am posting it out of sequence and a little late
As you may have noted from my last post our mode of transportation has two wheels instead of four legs. We have 2 Hondas, 1 Suzuki and 1 Jingping 125 cc motorcycles and our drivers range from 35 to 62 years old.
We didn't go in to Ha Noi so traffic was real bad but it wasn't good either. As in many cases here in vietnam size matters on the highway. We were riding motorcycles so we outranked bicycles and pedestrians but cars, buses, big trucks do just about anything they want, including driving on the wrong side of the road.
Seeing the countryside from the back of a motorcycle is a awesome way to travel. It's nor as intimate as bicycling or walking but it's pretty close. When you're on the back of a motorcycle you smell the smells you breathe the dust and you feel the heat and the rain.
We stopped along the way now and then to watch women transplanting rice, take photos of local sights and for walking breaks. Those walk breaks were necessary to shake off the effects of those buzzing 125 cc motors and to prevent our posterior from going completely dead.
We had hot dusty weather until the last twenty minutes so we had to stop and suit up for the rain. Overall a nice ride.
Got into Ha Long around six, checked into our hotel and carried our bags up 67 rather steep steps to our room. Thank God I packed light.
After a quick shower Wing showed us to a seafood hotpot restaurant where we had a
hotpot with clams, shrimps, clams, squid and fish plus veggies and 14 cans of beer for the four of us for about nine dollars apiece. A pretty good meal for a reasonable price.
Back up those 67 steps for a well deserved rest after a long, long day.
As you may have noted from my last post our mode of transportation has two wheels instead of four legs. We have 2 Hondas, 1 Suzuki and 1 Jingping 125 cc motorcycles and our drivers range from 35 to 62 years old.
We didn't go in to Ha Noi so traffic was real bad but it wasn't good either. As in many cases here in vietnam size matters on the highway. We were riding motorcycles so we outranked bicycles and pedestrians but cars, buses, big trucks do just about anything they want, including driving on the wrong side of the road.
Seeing the countryside from the back of a motorcycle is a awesome way to travel. It's nor as intimate as bicycling or walking but it's pretty close. When you're on the back of a motorcycle you smell the smells you breathe the dust and you feel the heat and the rain.
We stopped along the way now and then to watch women transplanting rice, take photos of local sights and for walking breaks. Those walk breaks were necessary to shake off the effects of those buzzing 125 cc motors and to prevent our posterior from going completely dead.
We had hot dusty weather until the last twenty minutes so we had to stop and suit up for the rain. Overall a nice ride.
Got into Ha Long around six, checked into our hotel and carried our bags up 67 rather steep steps to our room. Thank God I packed light.
After a quick shower Wing showed us to a seafood hotpot restaurant where we had a
hotpot with clams, shrimps, clams, squid and fish plus veggies and 14 cans of beer for the four of us for about nine dollars apiece. A pretty good meal for a reasonable price.
Back up those 67 steps for a well deserved rest after a long, long day.
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