Yesterday was an epic day and surely today could not match it, could it? Well, it could even have surpassed it. We were promised that the road would be good, which it was for the most part and the scenery equally as good as the day before but it exceeded it by some margin. We …
Day 35 — Dong Van to Cao Bang
It might have only been 6.30am but we were keen to get going so the car park was a hive of activity We are skirting the Chinese border today and the landscape is a continuation of yesterday’s epic grandeur, with the occasional typical wooden house nestled into the side of a hill. And it did …
Day 36 — Cao Bang to Halong Bay. The Last Post?
So this is our final day’s driving. After such an exciting adventure and two or three days of the best driving many of us have ever experienced, today could be something of an anticlimax. But it was not to be. Breakfast was a muted affair not just because the food on offer was particularly unappealing, …