::: 4 Nation ride - Vietnam - Cambodia - Laos - Thailand

Good read, I too am surprised at the large bikes after the stories I heard in Vietnam of large Government taxes on big bikes. But a good variety of bikes but maybe hard to get tyres for in some areas. It seems the best move is to buy bike in Vietnam then ride to other countries as it seems hard to ride into Vietnam.

Hey, calm down. Buy a ticket to Laos, it's cheaper than killing a person .

Thank you.
There will be many many more, for sure!

Thanks.
Tax is still. And hobby is still as well.
How do you learn Vietnamese biker's thinking on that?! We'd like to ride out of Vietnam, not inside,

During we having lunch near the waterfall, the other team, just around 30-40km away still playing with the tire.

My friend got the bike from middle of nowhere to this area by a passing by truck:



And it was the time for the pain ass:


Wazz up?:


Looked like they were chasing a mouse...


Dang.. That's a tire job!!!...




Oh hell, that's the tube!!!!




So,... What's gonna be next!?

Looking forward to the rest . . . . . . Looks like fun !

Would love to ride your friend's Ducati through Hai Van Pass
Enjoying your pics and keep posting.

I learned about the taxes talking to riders in Vietnam when I was there the second time.I plan on going back in 2015 but I want to ride all through S E Asia, but riding into Vietnam seems hard because of Government rules.
The area you are in now is somewhere I have yet to see.

Nah, those Multistrada suck. GS better

Cambodia and Laos, there are lots of thing to discover. However, for riding purposes, Laos seem to be the better place. As there are less traffic, more mountains...
I have plan to ride up north of Laos, there are all highlands, that's lots of fun, for sure.

Oh yeah, Vietnam part seems to be the hardest part among others in this area.
Let's see next couple of year, when the demand growing.

The next group finally reached the Waterfall. They had very hurry lunch and we all headed out to the street to find stuff to fix the bike on truck. All our attempts for fixing bike tire was failed.

The CB1000 tire looked like this:



And the Africa Twin made really pain in the ass.
Bike was on truck, but without wire, rope to secure...

A little fun to make the life happier:



It's complimentary to the owner of the broken Africa twin - we brought the disc from the restaurant above:





Well, than both bike were on truck.
We had no more choice rather than staying in Pakse, the town was around 100km ahead.

Gas for bikes and drinks for guys:





Another little rest after a really good road and speed.





Recalled Radioman ride the world, know how his usually jump :




Near to Pakse, more traffic coming up. Not only human, but dogs, cats and cows. Dang, that's stress ride.
Reached hotel Champasak Grand around 5:30PM, just beside Mekong river:



We were all there:


When the truck arrived, both broken bike were downloaded:


...

That night, we have really great dinner in Pakse. Drank a lot of beer Laos and river fish, on a floating boat-restaurant on Mekong.
Again, too hungry so I did not take any pix.
We already arranged two tires to be shipped from Thailand to the next border (Laos - Thailand), around 09:00AM tomorrow. It's around 50km away from our hotel.
Things seemed going together at that point. All were happy with the plan.
We did some slow riding around Pakse to see things.
Slept like dead man that night, again.

Laos food pix ? ? ?:dg



:slurp

Hix... So sorry. My problem not taken more Laos food pix. Reserved for the next time.

Day #3 ~ 420km from Pakse (Laos) thru Ubon (Thailand) to Preah Vihear (Cambodia).

Tracklog:


Saturday morning, woke up and realized that it was heavy rain last night. Dang, not a good thing to ride in the rain in Laos.
Well, lucky us, rain stopped by the sunlight. And the truck also arrived to pick up two broken bikes:


A morning adventure to find tires...


Great road from Pakse town to Pakse checkpoint, approx 50km. First time saw Laos traffic police around 10km from the hotel. Slowed down and waived to them. Feeling much better than seeing Vietnam traffic police. .
Checkpoint, easy procedure, easy time, and wait for the tires to come from Thai side:








Wait a bit for Passport stamp:




My tires are great:


...

While the other side of the Check point, work was still going on:



Those tires were delivered, finally, from Thai border:


Our guys took care of the tire machines, shop owners just looked standing:


I seemed a hard work:


Almost done for the Africa twin:


Nice tire for the CB1K:

Done the tire job, we all gathered at the Thailand check point for the immigration and bike import processes:




New tire looked cool:


Welcome to Thailand:




We learned the procedures along the ride:


Purely paperwork - lots of photocopy job for passport, bike title, etc...




Well, time out, of all the paperwork hassle:


It was just 100m to the great riding road...


...

Whilst doing immigration, I have contacted a friend in Ubon, he said he will escort us when arriving Ubon.
Noon time, we have everything were settled. Hit the Thailand roads.
Great roads from the Checkpoint to Ubon. We reached 2xx km/h without any issue.
My GS also went almost 200km/h and then gotta slowdown to 18x as I did not believe much in the bike with lots of wind. However, that's great feeling, totally different from previous days, crazy with bad roads and buddies' broken bikes.
Reached Ubon, we met James with his KTM950 Adventure in front of the Kawasaki dealer shop. We took some times to see the bikes there. Then James guided us to the lunch place, good parking area, good food.



James may though "why those guys talk a lot" :


After lunch, James brought us to KTM/Triumph showroom. A friend of mine changed his rear tire there:









Loạt Boneville:














...

Multistrada is going to have new shoe:


Oh hell, is it called Adventure? No way:


Let's my GS be dirty until I safely homed. Who cares.


Big THANKs to James:


Hope to see you again soon:


We headed to Chong Sangam checkpoint (Thai - Cambodia border) right after that!

We was in hurry to reach the Checkpoint before 5PM as we was informed that the office there would be closed then.
My gosh, that time was really rush. It was almost 4PM, and there is only around 180km to the border gate!!. D@mn.
Not only that, we hit a rain on the way, really heavy rain. Gotta stopped for wearing rain coats. At least 3 minutes wasted as we came into the LPG station instead of the Gasoline station .
Rain was heavier and heavier... The road surface more slippery... Speed suck. Heart beat like hell....
Our plan was going thru the border, ride around 150km more deeply into Cambodia land, where called Preah Vihear.
If that plan went well, we could nicely done one-day-three-nations.
As near to the check point, the rain stopped. Nice and twisty road made us more excited. Tried to lean my bike on every corner, as we had no chance since departure.

Reached checkpoint. It was ~5:30PM...
D@mn,.... Office closed!??



Now what??!