We're here! Watch out Vietnam!
After feeling very sad on the plane leaving Nepal, (cool place!) I quickly shifted my attention to the upcoming adventure - cycling with Amber! Yea baby. I was so excited I could hardly sleep and it was VERY EXCITING when I saw here strolling into our hotel with her bike box. We were trying to catch up on so much and share our respective adventures that no sentence was properly finished before it led to another memory that we just couldn't wait to share with each other. We're still working our way through the conversation topics! Thankfully both bikes lasted the extended plane travel although the cardboard box was in pretty bad shape!!
After a day in Hanoi city doing very important things like getting a massage (started the way we mean to continue...!), finding maps, needed bike paraphinelia (sp??) and starting to get our head around this new country we have ended up in Ha Long Bay. A beaut tourist spot on the coast. I haven't seen the ocean for a good few months so we thought it'd be nice to start our trip proper from here and end up at the coast in Thailand. So we endured 4 hours on a bus all the while just wanting to be on our bikes!! But after being dumped on the side of the motorway with a general wave in the direction of the road we needed to go down (turned out to be a wrong way one way!) we were left to begin cycling for real!!Woop woop! Bikes had survived the journey and felt good! We are fully loaded with a Nepalese drum and two ukeleles which we intend on learning how to play as we go. We already have the beginnings of Ring of Fire and Wagon Wheel. Nice. Amber raised the question - "Do we have room for these..??" and then we looked up and saw a man carrying enough spouting for an entire house on his bike and we thought....Yea! We're in SE Asia, land of the impossible bike loads! Of course we have space.
It is fun biking on the roads - just keep biking at the same pace and if you need to cross just work your way across as if its the most normal way of crossing the road in the world. We also invested in squeaky horns which help in the traffic. And help bring smiles to the faces of the many people who stop to look at us as we pass!
Haven't managed to find a comp here yet that can upload pics so sorry bout no photos. We are here and smiling though!!
Tomorrow we are exploring Ha Long Bay, getting out for a kayak and enjoying a day looking round. Then Sunday will see us starting the bike back towards Hanoi and then onwards to Sapa which is in the Northern foothills and meant to be stunning! Yay! We are both itching to get cranking!
I keep comparing things to Nepal, and Vietnam so far feels like the developed world!! Nice roads, traffic rules, general order....you don't see as many random things in day to day life here but it is still pretty fantastic. I'm super stoked to be out of the city too as you get to see more cool stuff.
Will try post some pics soon.
Arohanui xxo
After feeling very sad on the plane leaving Nepal, (cool place!) I quickly shifted my attention to the upcoming adventure - cycling with Amber! Yea baby. I was so excited I could hardly sleep and it was VERY EXCITING when I saw here strolling into our hotel with her bike box. We were trying to catch up on so much and share our respective adventures that no sentence was properly finished before it led to another memory that we just couldn't wait to share with each other. We're still working our way through the conversation topics! Thankfully both bikes lasted the extended plane travel although the cardboard box was in pretty bad shape!!
After a day in Hanoi city doing very important things like getting a massage (started the way we mean to continue...!), finding maps, needed bike paraphinelia (sp??) and starting to get our head around this new country we have ended up in Ha Long Bay. A beaut tourist spot on the coast. I haven't seen the ocean for a good few months so we thought it'd be nice to start our trip proper from here and end up at the coast in Thailand. So we endured 4 hours on a bus all the while just wanting to be on our bikes!! But after being dumped on the side of the motorway with a general wave in the direction of the road we needed to go down (turned out to be a wrong way one way!) we were left to begin cycling for real!!Woop woop! Bikes had survived the journey and felt good! We are fully loaded with a Nepalese drum and two ukeleles which we intend on learning how to play as we go. We already have the beginnings of Ring of Fire and Wagon Wheel. Nice. Amber raised the question - "Do we have room for these..??" and then we looked up and saw a man carrying enough spouting for an entire house on his bike and we thought....Yea! We're in SE Asia, land of the impossible bike loads! Of course we have space.
It is fun biking on the roads - just keep biking at the same pace and if you need to cross just work your way across as if its the most normal way of crossing the road in the world. We also invested in squeaky horns which help in the traffic. And help bring smiles to the faces of the many people who stop to look at us as we pass!
Haven't managed to find a comp here yet that can upload pics so sorry bout no photos. We are here and smiling though!!
Tomorrow we are exploring Ha Long Bay, getting out for a kayak and enjoying a day looking round. Then Sunday will see us starting the bike back towards Hanoi and then onwards to Sapa which is in the Northern foothills and meant to be stunning! Yay! We are both itching to get cranking!
I keep comparing things to Nepal, and Vietnam so far feels like the developed world!! Nice roads, traffic rules, general order....you don't see as many random things in day to day life here but it is still pretty fantastic. I'm super stoked to be out of the city too as you get to see more cool stuff.
Will try post some pics soon.
Arohanui xxo
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