Day 1 of our Top Gear Moto 2 tour︱Vietnam Motorbike Tours

https://vietnammotorbiketours.com The top Gear tour day one - with Vietnam Motorbike Tours and Toby Price! Over 10 days we plan to clock up around 2000km exploring Vietnam's beautiful coastline before heading inland to wind our way through countless mountain passes and explore areas way way off the beaten track. Stunning views, rich culture, great food and some of the best road riding in the world. It's time to see the real Vietnam! For better or worse, the French colonised Vietnam for over sixty years and it certainly makes a difference with our accommodation. Not so much with the coffee. Vietnam is kinda long and skinny so we'll be riding along the coast for the first few days. And it has some spectactular scenery. Some riders come a few days early to explore the beaches and rugged parts of the coast. Even the sandy beaches are good by Aussie standards. We head north to eventually finish in Hanoi, and again some riders add a few days on to explore the incredible rock formations and 1600 limestone islands of Halong Bay. Well worth checking out if you can spare a few more days at the end.. so said Toby Price. Anyway back to the bikes. Our trusty steeds comply with the road rules about engine size, but I discovered the hidden switches for extra performance. A quick word about flights, you can usually fly here direct from Sydney or Melbourne but I had to fly via Singapore and discovered the different airfare grades in Asia. So why is this called the Top Gear tour? Back in 2008 the Top Gear guys did a 75 minute special about Vietnam, and they featured bits like this, the Hai Van pass. And yes the views are great, the twisty road is fun but they just touched on the tourist stuff that close to the cities. It's nothing compared to what we'll be riding when we see THE REAL VIETNAM. In remote areas near the Laos border we'll be riding the Ho Chi Minh trail and riding through villages where often the residents have never seen a Westerner. Vietnam has come along way since I was here 25 years ago. The main highway was just a narrow crappy road in shocking condition. Now they've even got tunnels. Helmets on. Time to get back on the bikes! For anyone interested in Toby's riding, he's got quite a few vids on his Youtube channel and he's currently putting out a vlog series on his latest win at Dakar.

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Intro song: YT Nation from playonloop.com
A big thanks to Youtubers Seven Cinematic, Only Free Stock Footage, JW, and The Travelling Dukes who offered their Vietnam drone footage under the Creative Commons License.

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