5-8 April. 0 miles ????Spent a few days in NHA Trang. A big city right on beach surrounded both sides by mountains covered in lush green Forrest. 

Spent a little time on beach. Lots of time in coffee shop. Got my bike fixed. Had a creak coming from bottom bracket. Great job and £1. (30,000vnd). 

 
Got the cable car across to Vinpearl. Longest cable car in the world apparently but I’m really not sure about that. 600,000 VND gets you the return trip 150,000vnd food voucher and access to the rides etc. Proper tourist day. 

   
    
 

9th April. 55 miles to Đại Lãnh beach. 

Was good to get out of NHA Trang and start riding again.  The coast road from here right up to Quý Nhon is great. Took a few good back roads through fishing villages.   Mountains and paddy fields as far as you can see. 

   

   
    
   
Cut planned route short as I spotted a great campsite on Đại Lãnh beach. 

Embarrassing to say this was my first camp. It was bloody great. Thanks –

http://www.ukhammocks.co.uk/.  

the set up was simple and I slept so well swinging in the breeze coming in off the sea. The thing is for an extra £5 you can get an ok hotel so at the end of the day when you’re soaked through with sweat it can be a tough choice to set up a camp or crash in hotel.    

   
Had a camp fire on beach with a group of kids that were there for the weekend. Stars were out and had a lot of laughs.

 

10th April. 56 miles. 

More of the same really. Found a great little dirt road that (as far as my Garmin suggested) looked like a dead end at the bank of a big river. I thought I could pay someone to take me across in a boat if needed so it was worth the gamble to save maybe 4 miles ????. 

Turned out there was a super rickety old wood bridge to ride over. Great fun. Result! 

You can watch the video here: 

April 11th. 28 miles to Quý Nhon. 

My birthday ! I forgot it was until I saw messages from family wishing me a good one. In fact I have to check my phone to see what day it is. I like that. 

Kept it short. I did a few efforts for good measure. Managed 10 miles in 30min that’s good as the bike is as aero dynamic as a parachute and weighs 85kilos. 20mph average for 30 min. Pleased with that. Well there was not much else to do on my b day. 

For a lot of the way I saw locals drying small crab or fish on the road. Cars, lorries and mopeds flying by kicking up dust etc didn’t seem to worry them. I wonder how much of these I have eaten in my soups?

  

Booked a nice hotel for two nights. Pushed the boat out and spent 750,000vnd per night (£18).  Not a cockroach in site. Could get used to this. 

View from window.   

I have chilled out a little as I have to get to Da Nang about 200 odd miles north of me to meet my daughter who is flying out to meet me until the 19th of April. She will be here for 2 weeks so the blog will undoubtably slow around then. 

Looking forward to it. Been a little lonely since my bud left about a month ago. Got some fun things planned. 

Another Funny sign. Immature I know ????

 
 
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