French Indochina
THIS GREAT ADVENTURE takes in a huge swathe of North and North West Vietnam, riding into some of the most remote and unexplored areas, in most places we won’t see other foreign travellers and there is plenty of options for exploring off road for those looking to challenge themselves.
Breaking directly North out through the Delta we’ll soon be riding through lush green valleys of rice and Karst Limestone Mountains, where we can swim in lakes and rivers. Riding Further north we’ll climb up onto 1,500m peaks and some of the deepest canyons, where tribal communities live unaware of life even in Hanoi never mind the rest of the world. These regions bordering Yunnan province in China take you back in time to a slower more relaxed pace of life
Once north, we’ll spend many days exploring areas that are just perfect for motorbikes as we wind West through the City in the Clouds – Sa Pa, a mountain village turned retreat by the French to escape the heat of Hanoi’s summers before riding to the Laos Border and Dien Bien Phu where Ho Chi Minh, General Giap and the Viet Minh finally ended the French colonial presence in all of Indochina.
Your Adventure
IF YOU’RE LOOKING for a real break from the modern world, you’ve come to the right place: THE FRENCH INDOCHINA Tour is a 10-12-day Tour into some of the most remote regions in Vietnam, places that have only opened up to foreignors in recent years, where the land is still farmed by hand, poeple live in simple wood huts and men hunt with bows and arrows.
Skirting the Chinese and Laotian borders riding through some of the least explored areas of Vietnam with a choice of on road or off road, we’ll be alone for most of the 12 days. There is no route, I’ll just make it up as we go, depending on the kind of riding you’re enjoying the most.