Tag: Vietnam
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Rainy Season in Vietnam – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 142 – 27 October 2019
– ODO- 17811-17969km – Location- Hanoi – Weather- 22-24 with constant downpours I’ve never seen so much water on the road. I followed the highway on the hard shoulder as the rain come down. I left at 5-30, just before sunrise, to get to Hanoi early to relax and settle in but as I awoke…
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South East Asian Spirit – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 141 – 26 October 2019
– ODO- 17677 – 17811km – Location- Thanh Hóa – Weather- 22-28 Showers in the morning cleaning towards the coast In Laos the spirit was Lao-Lao. A liquid the colour of a thin whisky, proffered to me in re-used orange juice bottles along the highway. Here in Vietnam there is a similar spirit. I’m sitting…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 140 – 25 October 2019
– ODO- 17561 – 17677km – Location- Tan Ky – Weather- 28 and cloudy all day A grey day brought good miles as the terrain flattened out and the broken teeth rocks split and flat to a winding river bed with increasing numbers of houses. The day past without issue, feeding myself from biscuits, peanuts…
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Welcome to Vietnam – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 139 – 24 October 2019
– ODO- 17462 – 17561km – Location- Field near the QL7 Highway – Weather- 24-33 descending from cloud, showers in the afternoon I started my ride in a bad mood. As Id left the border town in Lao heading up the final 20km before the border a white truck cut me up with horn blazing…