The best and finniest guide!!!!!! His name is simply TY
This guy who has his company listed below took me around to site after site including the DMZ area overnight and too me out to eat (see seafood and goat above), and then took me into his house to have dinner. His website and email are listed below, and if you come to the Hue area, his English is awesome, he is funny, and very patient. he may very well be your man to book your motorcycle trek!!!!!! I can honestly now call him and his girlfriend my new friends!!!!!
Please email Ty for a tour:
Website of tours they do. Or custom made tours if you please:
THE DMZ!!!!
I decided to go off on a limb and stay an extra day around Hue in order to view all of the sites around the DMZ and more.
We started off on our 390 KM on a motorbike journey heading out of Hue and going to the Vịnh Mốc Tunnels. Why did I find these tunnels interesting? They had a small hospital to deliver babies along with family rooms where people lived for long periods of time.
We then headed toward where the DMZ between the north and south was and I got to see the bridge that became so popular with different colors for the two sides. Brothers were fighting against brothers, whole families separated in the blink of an eye. The museum here was small but entertaining and the reunification monument is wonderful. We then headed toward the cemetery to see where hundreds of soldiers are buried (this was a well kept cemetery.) As we drove up the mountain, i noticed how luscious and green this countryside was and how friendly the people were. It makes me sad to realize what went on here 40 years ago and what the people endured. We finally in the late afternoon arrived in Khe Sahn were the famous US military post was, where we spent the night, had some great chicken and rice fried and prepared for the Ho Chi Minh Trail the next day!!!!!
The next day was a lot of driving as we went to the Khe Sahn was memorial followed by heading onto the highway which once occupied the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Pictures are worth a thousand words here as the countryside was amazing and we stopped once to talk to some villagers from a small village. It makes me happy to realize that even without a lot of material goods and simple living, these people are still very happy and the kids are even more happier. Thank you Ty…this was a great trip!!!!
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- Hanoi
- Mai Chau
- Ha Long Bay
- Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Viet Cong Cu Chi Tunnels
- Hue
- Hoi An
- The Vietnamese Motorbike Diaries and people
- The food