Day 1-2-3 biking the highlands

As Nina explained, we missed the adventure. Simply cause we had so much adventures which tented to be much more adventurous than South East Asia. By this we mean China. Only because there you are not a money cow plus the bigger majority doesn't speak a word of English. We had to work with hand and feet language making noises. Like making a bus with sounds and all to find out were the bus station is... This doesn't excist anymore in SEA. Everything is run down by tourists and the country is set up just for them making everything easy. And at one point we were done with that! The tourists are the tourists, and the tourists towns are not the real sights of a country. We were up for a adventure! And in vietnam that means, get two Wheels beneath you and roll. With summing riders on the storm felling alive as ever.

To do so we rented a bike for two weeks and had to cover around 1500 kilometers. With around 300 the first day. With Nina, me and 1 backpack on a 135 cc yahama motor bike. Also we had to plan the road. At first we had to stay away from high way one as that's know to be a death trap with only dust and trucks. So why bother. After research we came up with this map: ADD LATER

During the First day we rode 300 km to Kon Tum. All was good till like 100 km before Kon Tom, the so called sitting area became quite painful and the road not paved and dusty as it gets, needless to say the last 100 km took as long as the other 200 combined. Note to our selfs get face masks the next day! The road was as always, beautiful, as highlands are supposed to be. Happy to say that we made this choice else it would be by a boring bus were you see nothing at all. 

The Next day, 250 km to Buan Ma Thot, yay less kilometers.... NOT. With still pain some pain in the bud we crawled back on our bike to see how far this dusty dirt road would stay a dusty dirt road. Apparently nearly the whole freezing way! No asphalt for at least 200 km with a highest speed of like 50 kmh but mostly 30 kmh it took forever. Atleast we got our face masks, which was the smartest thing we did that day. Somewere in the middle of nowhere we stopped for our daily coffee break. The coffee in vietnam is so delicious that you at least need one per day! The owner of the little shop was still building the place but offered us a coffee right away.  He was so happy to see us that he came and sit down with us and shared his cigarette with Tom (of course not with the woman....). Well, you can't say no to that so here we were: sitting on a small Woden chair, drinking coffee and Tom smoking together with the owner. He told us that the sandy road will continue like this for the next 100 km. so driving on the other hand was not so much fun anymore. After 12 hours on the road we arrived and after a fast dinner (delicious com tam) next to the random hotel I was sound asleep.

Day 3, to Dalat. Dalat is the coffee area of Vietnam. The road to here was luckely a asphalt rods straightforward through the mountains without a lot of traffic. And to say the truth, I'm glad it was so after these last two days! Without issues we arrived im dalat in a nice little guesthouse outside the town and somehow full with dutch people sitting by a campfire. Can it get any better?