![]() ![]() They were both sitting and smiling, having a laugh together whilst watching over what looked like a shed with some goods inside. Somewhere about 30km from the small village where I was to make camp, I came across two tiny old ladies. Once you start to ride you instantly become connected to the environment around you, be it a village amongst the rice paddies, a village set under the mountains or the mountains themselves. I loved it, my worries about the conditions of the road soon diminished and I relished passing every corner and the new friendly faces and even more stunning scenery that revealed itself. The countryside was absolutely stunning, and the people were all too curious and inviting. This made the track extremely muddy and on a 130cc 1970’s Honda WIN, with 40kg of backpacking equipment to the back end things get tricky very quickly. Definitely one of the harder roads I’ve had to pass through and to add insult to injury it rained through half of the ride and many parts of the road were completely destroyed as they were building a new one. It took me four hours to reach the small village, but I made it. There is a Chinese resort near Thac Ban Gioc and a Vietnamese family offering rooms for rent in a small village close to the falls. This trip needs a little more planning as accommodation along the route is very limited. ![]() When my journey took me to an area called Cao Bang, that is where I decided to go forward with my plans to visit Ban Gioc.īefore I set off I got stuck into the planning stages. Though these falls are the things that fairytales are made of, getting there is somewhat difficult and locals are always torn between recommending the falls and warning you away from them. When travelling around the north of Vietnam, locals always recommend visiting Ban Gioc, but whenever I mention my interest in visiting the place they call me “dien”, which is Vietnamese for mad. Almost 300km from Hanoi in Vietnam lie the waterfalls of Ban Gioc, which straddles the international borders between China and Vietnam, offering some of southeast Asia’s most scenic views. ![]() A place that has formed over thousands of years and has been the subject of myths and legends that have been shared within the local Vietnamese and Chinese settlements. From destroyed rocky roads to muddy and wet ones, through ice-cold winds and heavy rain, I somehow found myself nearing a place that only few spoke of. ![]()
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