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Re:2up on 100cc Honda across Vietnam - 2012/03/19 15:29
Leaving Nha Trang was tough, we liked it a lot and hadn't seen as much as we were hoping to but time is ticking and we want to get to Da Nang and Hoi An by the end of our 2nd week on the bike. The road out of Nha Trang was spectacular, not quite as good as the road from Da Lat but cliff side with great views over a turquoise ocean.
The ride today was excellent, we had heard HWY 1 was pretty boring and full of large vehicle traffic but this part was a ton of fun and traffic was light
There were lots of tiny towns dotting the coast North of Da Nang
For the first time on the whole trip we have been dodging broken glass, I don't know why this particular part of Vietnam has it when the rest didn't. Though we are riding on Hwy 1 which we haven't done much of yet and this is the biggest most direct route north/south in Vietnam. Or maybe the tire repair shops (which are plentiful) are trying to help themselves to a bit more business. We managed to avoid any punctures but we did get caught by a few sprinklers that were misting the road. I have no idea why the locals had water spraying out constantly on the side of the highway, it wasn't really in position to wash anything or hydrate any plants... ? Maybe they are for the use of the water buffaloes who would otherwise have to cross the road for a dip in the pond and then stop traffic on their way back?
Coming down out of the coastal mountains
Leaving the coast for a few miles for some boring straight stuff
War memorials, in Vietnam, are all over the place and usually surrounded by hundreds of graves. We almost always drive past at least 2 a day but sometimes we drive past up to 10. We were the only people visiting this one at the time.
Often we are riding on the shoulder of the road, there is usually a car lane and a wide shoulder for motorbikes/bicycles/pedestrians to share and of course the motorbikes pull into the road when necessary, this is what you would expect. What I didn't expect was to also be sharing the shoulder of the road with crops that need to be dried, all along our ride we have been avoiding coffee, grain, hay, etc. that is spread out on tarps along the side of the highway. Sometimes we see tire tracks right through the middle of someones food and other times we have to brake hard to allow a truck to pass before moving into the car lane to avoid a huge pile of hay!
When we finally arrived to Song Cau we stopped at a couple of hotels where they motioned to us that they were full. Since very few Vietnamese (outside of major cities) speak any English they motion a negative response through hand motion similar to unscrewing a light bulb. We had never encountered this vertical 'so so' motion before Vietnam but any insight into this generic negative signal would be appreciated. Stopping at a cafe to ask for a hotel seemed to work as some locals were happy to point us in the right direction. We were a little apprehensive about these directions at first because the direction they pointed us in was heading out of town and down a very unkempt dirt/gravel road. But when we had ridden past the school, some small farms, more livestock wandering the road and some fisherman loading 3000lbs of fish onto a moped we found a great hotel that was actually separate small bungalows right on the beach. It was a little more than we wanted to pay ($12) but they also provided us with a decent and cheap dinner; so it all worked out.
The road out of town eventually got us to a hotel
School outside Song Cau (the next morning)
Swimming after a long day riding, beach about 5 steps from our hotel room
Post edited by: Bent_boot, at: 2012/03/19 15:37
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