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Bent_boot
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The end - 2012/03/30 06:10
This will be the end of the Vietnam ride report... the last few days were kind of lame compared with earlier roads/adventures. We are now riding North to Hoi An on Hwy 1 which everyone has warned us against... people and websites/forums warned that it was dangerous and huge trucks would constantly passing, etc. I would also warn against Hwy 1 but only because it is BORING! The trucks are present but we are usually doing the passing and there are not too many. But the damn road is straight and lame. The last 3 days of riding have kind of merged in my memory now (a few weeks later, sorry... we are continuing to travel and there is not a ton of time to waste online). I am therfore combining our last days on the bike into this one post and will not be boring you with our continued (non-moto) travels. Except to say that riding rented scooters and ATVs in the Greek islands is a good time and Turkey is an awesome country to visit with super friendly people and easy to navigate transportation systems.... I would HIGHLY recommend Turkey by bike or any other mode of transport.
The day after Song Cau we rode a long day of Hwy 1 with the highlight being a mid-afternoon (blazingly hot) stop at the Champa ruins which we spotted on a hill-top and spent 20mins searching for on the back roads. The hike to the top of the hill they are situated on was short but in 35 degree heat I was still sweating my ass off. The ruins reminded me a lot of the Mayan ruins we saw in Belize/Guatemala.
Ruins of Champa
I really loved our bike trip as a whole but I would recommend sticking to the twisty roads in the south of Vietnam and not trying to cover a lot of distance on HWY 1, you can always transport yourself and your bike by overnight train to the North if you are set on riding the North of the country as well as the south. The mountain roads and coastal riding we did were fantastic and I would love to go back. The highlights were: Vung Tao, Da Lat, Na Trang, Ma Lamb and obviously the roads in between. Here is some proof that you should stick to the smaller roads and stay clear of Hwy 1.
Hwy 1 on the route to Hoi An
This damn hwy is as straight as the others were twisty, here is one of the few corners
Our last night was spent in Hoi An, a popular tourist testination in Vietnam. Hoi An is famous for being beautiful, quaint and blah, blah... it is mostly a tourist town now and has no real Vietnamese flavour/essence/grit. we enjoyed our fancy dinner but we paid tourist prices for it and damn but that sucks after eating for $3 a meal (for both of us) the last couple of weeks. Hoi An IS pretty, especially after dark, but it is all a show put on for tourists and I wish we were back in Ma Lam walking over sewers and eating on children sized plastic chairs with the locals super surprised to see us and the drunk guy who wouldn't leave us alone trying to help us buy everything in town.
The end of our moto-trip is here in Da Nang (an hour outside of Hoi An). We are sending our bike back to Saigon via train and heading North to Hanoi and Ha Long bay before flying to Istanbul via Poland. The train ticket for the bike was only slightly more than it was for us (about $30cdn for bike and $25 for each of us).
I will let you down easy with some more bike pics....
I like this one, using a bike to transport another bike
And this is great as we westerners claim to need an SUV to drive up a driveway that sometimes has leaves on it or maybe to carry some groceries but in Vietnam you can deliver drywall with a scooter
Another small thumper with class
What is with the rocket shaped thing on top of the cylinder?
We left Vietnam being used to seeing bikes like this And arrived in Istanbul and now this is the typical ride
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and Turkey is an awesome country to visit with super friendly people and easy to navigate transportation systems.... I would HIGHLY recommend Turkey by bike or any other mode of transport. 
