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Riding Through Bombs on the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Photos 42 to 63
Asia » Laos
April 14th 2007 by Mat and Trace
After our day trip mission on the Bajas, Jeremy and I were very keen to do some harder-core riding and Trace wanted to do a rock climbing course in Vang Vieng, so we split along gender lines (ie left Trace by herself) and went on a week mission into some very remote areas in southern Laos.
I know our blog has consisted mainly of motorbike stories lately, but this Man Mission is the last one, and by far the best.
From Vang Vieng I could not hire a Baja, so I hopped on the back of Jeremy’s bike and we headed to the capital Vientiane and I paid in advance for a Baja for 4 days. Then Jeremy went to the guy he had hired his bike from so that his clutch cable and a couple of other things could be fixed. The guy (Fuark) is a Vietnamese motocross rider, and had a great selection of bikes. The bikes were so good that I sheepishly took the Baja I had just hired back to the place I had hired it from 30 minutes prior (the clutch was slipping a little), got a refund, and hired an awesome 2002 Baja
Full Text Entry: Riding Through Bombs on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
At the town "Nong"
Each of the cluster bomb canisters at the back of this shot held 300 grenade type bomblets, 30% of these did not explode and are lurking about the Laos countryside. Go USA.
Note the guy with the metal detector
He is using it so he can build his house, and use some of the land in the area
Made in the good ol' US of A
It was seeing these English labels on the cluster bomb canisters in the middle of nowhere in Laos that really brought home to me just how wrong America's involvement in Laos was.
Jeremy wins the punctured tyre competition
I don't know why he is smiling, he just pulled this out of his flat tyre as we were riding in the dark after 11 hours on the "road".
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