Riding Through Bombs on the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Asia » Laos
April 14th 2007

Published: August 6th 2007

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 ... Read Full Entry

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The cause of Jeremy's puncture

Back to the bike to replace the inner tube the next morning

Tricky little step

Bumpy

Ideally your levers should be in better condition than this...

Keep the bike upright Mat, keep the bike upright.

A basic map of the the main sections of the HCMT with the eastern part of our trip overlaid on it

... and a ute in a ditch

At the Beerlao factory

In case you are wondering, I wear those horrendous pants so I do not have to wash the motorbike pants as much.

Starting young, good girl.

English signs, but behind stuff, nice one.

The Khamouane province of Laos is so stunning

I figured out that I have been to every province in Laos, I think Khammouane is the most beautiful with amazing karst, caves, and jungle.

At the festival at Kong Lor cave

This is a common game in Laos, looks easy but the darts are so useless it isn't funny, you may as well be throwing a potato chip

The entrance of Kong Lor

Inside Kong Lor cave

In the cave. 7.5 km is a looong way for a cave

Emerging at the other end

The road to Kong Lor cave

Our third rolled truck

My puncture

On the 6 day trip we did in 2005 I got 4 punctures, so Jeremy was shaking his head this time considering I had only been on the bike for a couple of days, and he had been riding one for 7 weeks without a puncture, but he was to pay for his mocking later...

After some searching we found this bridge

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