The Easy Riders trip

Wing, the Driver
The Easy Riders trip was one of the best things, I highly recommend it!

Trips are available for all sorts of lengths and destinations. We chose a three day trip to Nha Trang. We could have done it in two days, but knew we would enjoy it so we made it three. People before have done one month long trips up the whole country! Now I can see why….
It’s a wonderful way to travel up Vietnam through open country roads, and have a unique experience. Each morning our luggage was bagged up and strapped to the back of the long distance, comfortable motorbike.

We met in the morning in Da Lat, my driver was called Wing, and he looked just as cool as I imagined an Easy Rider would! Straight away we took off for the open road, and very quickly we were out of town and driving through lush greenery with beautiful scenery around us. We drove along many green winding roads, sometimes through the clouds. Outskirts of Da Lat towards Lak Lake, and the Easy Riders were very good at stopping regularly for us to stretch our legs and take in some local culture or sight around us. At every stop, either Wing or Thai (Ben’s driver) would explain everything to us and answer all our questions. A fantastic source of local information – they were such lovely people! The second day we finished at Buon Ma Thuot, and the third day took us to Nha Trang.

Over the course of three days we stopped to see many many things such as a flower farm, coffee plantations, bamboo cutting (the lady used a very sharp knife and her teeth!), bamboo baskets being woven and bound, a silk factory where cocoons were boiled to release the silk. We stopped at two very impressive waterfalls, a rice wine production site, a family business that grew silk worms; feeding them mulberry leaves – she had trays and trays of worms! We saw a chopsticks factory. Just shows how resourceful everyone is. With bamboo and within agriculture, everything is used and recycled.

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