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waterbaby · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie

Has anyone done a cycling trip through Vietnam? If so, I'd appreciate any info & web links you have about organised trips or doing it yourself. Thanks!

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

Sorry. No info.

That does sound very interesting. I'd bet you'd get to see a lot that others wouldn't doing it that way.

waterbaby · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie

I think it would be an awesome way to see the country and I'm all up for doing something a bit different and a bit physical for the next trip, but I'm a bit of a sook so it'd be nice to have a support vehicle to take me up the REALLY big hills Very Happy

I found one trip through Intrepid Travel but they require you to bring your own bike which is a bit inconvenient if you want to travel elsewhere afterwards.

I think I'll scoot over to the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree and have a look there.

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

I wonder what it would cost to buy a bike there and if you could sell it when you left.

kylehawkins2000 · Joined: 08 Apr 2003

I belive there is a Lonely Planet book entitled "Biking Vietnam". I could be mistaken however. There is also a book about the story of an Vietnamese-American who returns to Vietnam (by bicycle) to find his family roots. I can't remember the name of the book but it's a good read and will give you some insight into biking there.

I've done some (very)long-distance biking. I'm a big fan of the 'do-it-yourself' approach. Tours tend to be very expensive and not as rewarding (although I've never taken one.....I just imagine it so).

I spent two weeks in Vietnam a few years ago and I'm not sure if it would be my first choice of locations to bike in. France would be first on my list, followed closly by Australia and New Zealand. I didn't bike in Vietnam, I was just a tourist. It's a bit of a crazy place....

If you're determined however I bet you could have a great time.

Good Luck.

Crois · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 5:37 am Post subject:

Go on the Lonely Planet Website and check out the book. It is there and it's called Biking Vietnam. I wanted to do this aswell. There are about 60 routes you can do around the country aor something like that.

www.lonelyplanet.com If i am not mistaken.

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

Ah, there we go:

http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/search_products.cfm?addtoken=&searchfor=cycling+vietnam&select=javascript%3Avoid%280%29&x=9&y=14

Cycling Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

waterbaby · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I never tried it.. but met a few in Vietnam as well as China who were doing that exact thing.

I gotta say one thing though.. those Vietnamese roads are bad!! Also anything and everything goes on those roads.. all kinds of people, bikes, people drying rice, selling vegetables and chicks, everything. Its a rule of the biggest. Whichever is the biggest thing on it has the right of way and everything goes around it.

I didn�t do any biking.. but I did rent some motorbikes here and there going to the outskirts of Nha Trang in particular.. which wasn�t anywhere near as bad as the big cities which just looks like a river of stuff everywhere. Between cities you�d be alright.. but I�d imagine it would be a very very interesting experience.