It is amazing that after nearly 6000 miles of driving through South East Asia, we came upon our first road accident to day, 25kms from the border with China. Some of the driving in Vietnam has to be seen to be believed. Here the 4 x 4 driver ( fortunately not one of our group) is getting intimate with a truck, the road was blocked and queues were building up both sides of the incident. Fortunately there was a field next to the road......
It didn't take our group long to figure out that the field was driveable as there was already a basic track there for some road works. Here Tom and Rosalie take the plunge, watched by some amazed drivers also in the queue.
Our turn soon came, the Navara had no trouble in getting through.
The other side of the incident was chaos as traffic had filled both lanes of the road, but we got through. Later one of the big trucks fell over when the road collapsed!
We spent last night on a Junk, with a three hour cruise into the spectacular Ha Long bay with its many many islands. The Junk had all mod cons including en suite bedrooms, all very comfortable.
Dinner last night was held in this spectacular cave together with music and dancing, everything was excellent
Yesterday morning we had an early start with a Cyclo ride round some of the more interesting parts of Hanoi. This was taken just after 6am so no wonder Jayne looks a little bewildered!! It is a very slow form of transport
Along the way we stopped to watch ladies exercising in the square by the Red river. They all needed too as well! ( Not that I can talk!)
Wiring Hanoi style, how the place doesn't blow we will never know
Chaos crossroads at 7 am in the morning, despite the chaos everybody seems to keep quite calm which is more than I could do! Mind you there is a fair bit of horn blowing.
This lady just went straight ahead and ignored everything which seems to be the way most people tackle driving in Hanoi
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