Honda win
26 May 2016 An early Nha Nghi start to the day (out before 8.00 a.m.) and nipped up the street past the buzzing markets to a bakery we’d spotted the night before. The wood fired oven was in full fire and fresh bread rolls were pulled straight out and put in a bag for us. […]
17 May 2016 We were up nice and early for the days ride. A healthy final breakfast at the excellent Heart of Sa Pa hotel. Ha being the ultimate hostess and almost force feeding us food. Checked out, and made our way to load up the bikes, which had been stored in a local kindergarten […]
We arrived in Sa Pa quite late Friday evening after a mammoth day riding – we’d passed so many small villages (including a village built on the mountain prescipice on stilts!) that we weren’t expecting Sa Pa to be the established town and tourist hub that it is. After a bit of searching we found […]
13 May 2016 Despite a very hard bed and a very noisy stormy night, we both slept like babies. Waking early to a stunning day outside. A quick check of the weather and it’s looking like its with us for the day – rain expected in sapa from 4’ish. Shouldn’t be a problem, since we […]
12 May 2016 Hanoi to Nghia Lo was the plan – following the rough route laid out by wwwv.nomadasaurus.com. We checked out of our Hanoi hotel at 9:30am and rode the short distance up to Style Motorbikes to collect the registration papers and number plates for our new Detech Honda Win 125’s. We’d picked the […]
Landing in Hanoi we were in need of a bit of rest and recouperation! This was our second visit to Hanoi and we’d already seen a fair few tourist sights (the prison is definitely worth a look if you’re interested in history and the French and American wars), so this time we were more focussed […]
