Heduš Ho Chi Minh Trail

So all of you for a long time, greetings, and we apologize for the delay.
As we wrote last time, so we left the car at the police barracks in the safety and walk, we went the direction of Vietnam. Check ahead rapidly
and without any problems on the Vietnamese side of us
surrounded by a herd of racketeer. We began to realize that we are in a communist country with vekslákům, red flags and symbols typical of the Communists.

We exchanged at least they used the money supply and mototaxi drivers, who give us a ride for two dollars to the small village of Lao Bao. We are groping through the village on foot and observed a swarm of local merchants. Every time we stopped the minibus or mototaxi and offer our services. But we wanted to first rozkoukat and become familiar with local prices.

After a brief tour of the village, we used bids mototaxi who took us about 30 km away and the way they showed us a few war monuments. Thus, we proceeded towards the city of Hue over the valley around the famous Hill of Ash from the movie Hamburger Hill. Our original plan to climb the hill quickly talked us locals who upozrnili us to a large number of unexploded landmines. So we then went hitchhiking through the jungle to the beautiful city of Hue. Hue City is a typical Vietnamese city full of people and mopeds. Here, we survived the night and morning for a large rain and cold continued through the war monument in the city of Da Nang.

Travel and subsistence are constantly disturbing the cold and rain, and therefore seek information on weather and rain, we find that it has at least a week and the temperature is around 15 degrees. Therefore, we change plans and return to the eastern road along the Laotian border to the town of Dong Ha, where we use the services of a local travel agency that organizes trips into the demilitarized zone (the former border between South and North Vietnam). Still raining and we can not from the hotel, a fact we have the weather in Vietnam out of luck. We ride along the old cultural monuments, but it’s cold and rain.

Changing the plans and return back to the car. Tracing the main road leading into the village of Lao Bao. Stops are seven local minibus and half empty promises for a few crowns to fit our borders. Climb and we are glad that we’re going. But gradually, gets us to 14 other people and finally, after breakneck dash down the road with a small minibus in which 18 people. We can not move the head of our old guitar and pots. We are quite worried, the driver is overtaking like crazy and if someone vlítnu to us, so it will be horrible. After about an hour we arrive at the border and get off all right. We packs and cross the border back into Laos.

In Vietnam, we spent some days in total. Unfortunately there was bad weather, that there did not spend a long time. Tape to Laos, it does not rain here and there is heat. Pick up the car and we are happy to have her back home.

Our next road goes south to Laos Bolaven plateau. We drive along the old Ho Chi Minh Trail, which follows the Vietnamese border and heads south into Cambodia. After about 30 km you will reach the village where the road ends and there is only a small path for pedestrians and motorcycles, which leads into the jungle. Locals say it’s about the way he passes, and so on Bolaven two days through the jungle and there is an old bombed bridge. When you turn the car and return to the main path. We are adventurers, but this would really risk.

Laos is Southeast of the country really wild, beautiful and dangerous. It is here that most vyskutuje tigers in Southeast Asia. Also, why is he called “earth tigers” and admit that if they sleep in the jungle, it’s okay until the moment when we need the toilet. With a flashlight in your teeth and go to the toilet in the car we have all the lights lit. Today we laugh about it, but in the jungle are not much to laugh. Obklikou bolavenskou get to the plateau, and spend several days touring the beautiful waterfalls, beautiful. But our time is running out and we leave Laos and our compass turns to the west.

We cross Thailand and spend 10 beautiful days in Phuket and the port town of Krabi. The semi-captive Phuket parked on the beach, where fishermen live only. Pay nothing and eat in a small beach pub. The owner is also a fisherman and he pays us directly above standard. We carry your boat on the small islets, where it astonished Snorkels. One takes me hunting for calamari or more just laying traps. It’s a really powerful experience. Ship engine 10×2 m, as every now omitted, we drove about 15 km from the coast, where they were about 2.5 m waves. Well, we went up at night and I nepozvracel just because I was terribly shy and I looked up, it’s completely normal for me. And I was so happy to land on my feet that I can hardly begin to present.

After 7 days leave Phuket and Krabi are heading into town. A few kilometers from the town we found a restaurant with bungalows for a few bucks. Bungalows are right by the sea and everything that was a big pool from which a splendid view of the rock. After a few days, cross the border into Malaysia and the border is, as always, all without customs problems and admired my old military trophies, which I bought in Laos (40 years old landmine destroyed an international organization MAG and mortar shells).

In Malaysia, we drove through beautiful mountains toward the sea jihočínskému. A few days so we wandered our way back and was going west to the city Melacca. Here we seek a harbor for loading trucks in a container (hence it’s cheaper than in Singapore). We found that the container port is up to 200 km further in Kelang. In the town of Kelang, we found a solid company that transports us back to our mobile home into the Indian Chennaie. We took a backpack, where we had a couple of shirts and headed by bus to Singapore, where we had to travel by car to Chennaie. We had an open-air ticket “in Singapore, so we went back to the old familiar places in Singapore. We spent about 5 days here, we do not have to wait for a container ship in Chennaii. As we already mentioned in the article on India, Chennai is a terrible city! There is a stench, filth, garbage and 7 million Indians ……

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