10.12. – 11.12.2024 Budapest – Guangzhou – Cam Ranh – Hanoi Vietnam is a country I’ve heard about from Jozef about a million times. If he could move there, he already would have. So when he kept talking about it so much, I said he could take me there. We bought flights for 5 weeks,…
Thursday, 12.12.2024 Hanoi – Hai Phong – Cat Ba Hanoi is definitely not a quiet city. Good thing I brought earplugs. Early in the morning we’re woken by the aunties already preparing food for the whole day. We get up at 8am, pack everything fast and head toward the market. Along the way we stop…
Friday, 13.12.2024 Cat Ba – Ha Long bay We get up after 7am and head into town at 7:45am for breakfast. We pick a lady right by the road making baguettes. I have one, Jozef has two with egg, pâté and coriander. Meanwhile I remember I left my memory card at the accommodation, so Jozef…
Saturday 14.12.2024 Cat Ba I went to bed too late last night and it’s hard to get up. We wanted to leave at 8am, but only reach breakfast at 8:20am. The lady makes us each an omelet with a dry roll and sweet coffee. It’s really cold out today, about 15°C with light drizzle. Before…
Monday, 16.12.2024 Cao Bang – Ban Gioc–Detian Falls At 2am I need to pee, so I go ask if they could stop somewhere. They say we’ll be stopping in 10 minutes. I grab toilet paper, my phone and money. They drop me off by some restaurant. It’s genuinely pretty gross there. I pee fast and…
Tuesday 17.12.2024 Ban Gioc–Detian Falls – Nguyen Binh We get up before 7am, pack our things, brush our teeth and set off at 7:15am. Nobody’s around at the whole place, everything’s unlocked. We continue on past the waterfalls. We’re not hungry yet, so we leave breakfast for the next village. We ride along the Vietnam-China…
Wednesday, 18.12.2024 Nguyen Binh – Bao Lac We get up really late, since we don’t have as many kilometers planned today and I really don’t feel like getting up. But if I’d known there was a beautiful blue sky outside, I’d have moved a bit faster, but again we have a window 10 cm from…