Part One of our 100km Motorbike Trek into the Highlands........ Day One - Nha Trang to Lak Lake in the DAKLAK Highlands - 250km to break us in! So we had decided against the nightmare of the 12 hour sleeper bus and opted for the 4 day 1000km motorbike trip through the Central Highlands. The basic premise that these two guides and their Honda 100cc bikes would transport us both PLUS our considerable packs (and our guides gear!) all that distance up to Hoi A...

There are many wondrous sites that nik and I have seen and will see over the next few months. Nha Trang will be up there but for all the wrong reasons. The decision to leave Dalat was made easier by the inclement weather, the need for warmth demonstrating one of the basic principles of Mazlows Hierarchy of needs. As is often the case buying a bus ticket is never easy we enquired at numerous travel cafes all providing conflicting info and much confusion. My Vietn...

From Mui Ne we caught a local bus which was heading inland to the mountainous area of Dalat. On waiting for the bus we got chatting to an Ozzie guy from Melbourne called Zach who was also heading our way, so we warned him that catching any local transport with us was normally bad news and we weren't too wrong!.......As usual our expected transport was not quite what we were expecting, air conditioning consisted of large windows that didn't close, cracked windows,...

Leaving Saigon was an experience in iself! In Vietnam they have one (yes just one!) highway up the coast and with it being 'Tet' (New Year Holiday) in Vietnam, every b***** was on the road with us going home! Needless to say, like London we sat for about 2 hours not moving in a traffic jam and then once moving slowly, tried to tackle roundabouts with about 30 other buses, 40 mopeds, about 10bikes with kids on and a few old ladies walking....... my god, is all th...

After the sedate morning boat ride around the markets the afternoon meant for another form of transport an express speedboat to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). The four hour journey was like being on a rolleroaster we were thrown about all over the place. The ever changing scenery flew by our window, barges painted with huge eyes on the front carrying cargo ranging from water melons to gravel dredged up by massive floating platforms...not to mention the floating petr...