Cycling Vietnam

[sulis]

Wow! Thank you everyone. You always provide such great information. I will see my father this weekend and give him some of this info so we can talk about it some more. More than anything, I'm hoping a planned trip like this with his oh so fabulous daughter will encourage him enough to get serious about taking care of himself. He has many health problems right now but they are all related to the extra weight he is caring around. So hopefully this will take care of two things at once - the weight and his dream to return to Vietnam to see how it is now.

And if I do end up going...I will definitely take many pictures and post the adventures!!

[Deanna]

I once read a great book called "Catfish and Mandala" by Andrew X Pham. He emigrated to the US as child and this is story of his bicycle ride through Vietnam when he takes a visit back when he's older. Probably won't offer a lot of advice, but would probably be good reading.

[snowtulip]

Ditto on "Catfish and Mandela", loved the book and interesting to read about his self supported cycling tour.

[russtaitai]

Sulis, I did a tour with four friends a few years ago. A short tour, and mainly along the Mekong Delta, but it was an absolute blast...except for the heat. This was my husband's first time back since the war and he did, indeed, get some closure.

We used http://www.tuliptours.com/vietnam-bicycle-tour.html

You can see some pictures of our trip at: http://homepage.mac.com/bhuff123/PhotoAlbum20.html


By the way, I've "lurked" here every once in awhile, and it was your post that got me to register.

[bike_odyssey]

You can also try cycling tours with the Bike Odyssey team. They are on of the best bicycle touring business in the world. BBC and National Geographic has documented their tours long before.