Tag: “Motorcycle”

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   London by Motorcycle

   You can experience it all in a day—if you don't look too closely.

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   Riding the Ho Chi Minh Trail …and off the beaten tourist track

   Riding the Ho Chi Minh Highway on 2 wheels is an excellent way to get off the tourist trail... and the bus.

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   Col de Petit St. Bernard, French/Italian Alps

   Every 10 feet brings another vantage, another wonder.

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   Ho Chi Minh Highway

   The modern day Ho Chi Minh Trail is more symbolic than exact – it’s not the original trail, but a relatively new highway, which was completed in 2002 to the chagrin of many who believed it to be a foolish endeavor, a colossal waste of money, and a tribute to an artifact of war that represents bloodshed, death, and to some, defeat.
   
   Despite the images of war, a journey along this road, as it winds along the Truong Son Mountains, is one of immense beauty, with a diverse population of ethnic minorities and a varied landscape: farm land and bucolic emerald fields; soft, swelling hills; ruddy, rolling rivers; hardwood rainforests, waterfalls, miles of rice paddy, cornfields, black pepper farms, rubber tree forests, and coffee plantations.
   
   The best way to experience it? Hire an Easy Rider–they’re a group of freelance motorbike guides, based in the Central Highlands and South Central Coast, who take travelers on the back of their bikes to see “real Vietnam”.