Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh City

[FlashNL]

At the moment I'm travelling on a bicycle through South East Asia. I'm using a Garmin Extrex Legend HCx to keep track of where I've been. To help you guys I bit I want to place my GPS-logs here. I also try to add POI's and other information about roads etc in the files. So feel free to use all the information for new maps etc...

I'll try to update the file as much as possible.
Below you can see what's in the file:

2010-04-17: Hanoi - Hai Phong
2010-04-18: Hai Phong - Cat Ba
2010-04-19: Cat Ba
2010-04-20: Cat Ba
2010-04-30: Cat Ba - Hai Phong
2010-05-01: Hai Phong - Do Son
2010-05-02: Do Son
2010-05-04: Do Son - Hai Phong
2010-05-11: Hai Phong - Thai Binh
2010-05-12: Thai Binh - Ninh Binh
2010-05-14: Ninh Binh (Hoa Lu)
2010-05-16: Ninh Binh (Tam Coc, Hang Mua)
2010-05-17: Ninh Binh (Phat Diem)
2010-05-18: Ninh Binh - Cuc Phuong
2010-05-19: Cuc Phuong National Park
2010-05-20: Cuc Phuong - Kim Tan
2010-05-21: Kim Tan - Sam Son
2010-05-22: Sam Son
2010-05-29: Sam Son - Nghia Dan
2010-05-30: Nghia Dan - Do Luong
2010-05-31: Do Luong - Vinh
2010-06-01: Vinh - Dong Hoi
2010-06-02: Dong Hoi (Phong Nha Cave)
2010-06-03: Dong Hoi - Cua Tung (Vinh Moc Tunnels)
2010-06-04: Cua Tung - Dong Ha (Hien Luong Bridge, Truong Son National Cemetery)
2010-06-05: Dong Ha (DMZ Tour: Doc Mieu Base, Con Thien Firebase, Camp Carroll)
2010-06-06: Dong Ha - Hue (Huyen Phong Dien National Cemetery)
2010-06-07: Hue
2010-06-08: Hue (Citadel)
2010-06-09: Hue (Thien Mu Pagoda, Tomb of Tu Duc, Tomb of Minh Mang)

[lurkin]

Attachment upload - please read here (You can see links before reply)

[FlashNL]

ok... that worked! thanks! :wink:
file is added to the post..

[Ryo]

Dear FlashNL,

Thank you for the tracklog. I looked at the entire route you sent us. I was so impressed. You took the tracklog in right format and also you went to many place other than boring route 1A. Hai Phuong route is very interesting. Most of people will do the simple trip between Hanoi and Ha Long bay but, you've been a lot more. Our map had a lot of errors incomplete route around that area.
I also noticed the route from Ninh Binh - Thanh Hoa - Tan Ky - Vinh is also very intresting. I have to adjust a lot of place in this area.

It was good decision not to go beyond Phong Nha cave, The road is there but, more than twice longer than what paper map says and almost nobody there for 200+ Km. Also, I see a lot of vipers and some howling of the wild animals. It is kind of scarely route.

I'm very excited to see rest of the tracklog. It is the route I'm going to travel next time.

thank you,

Ryo

[FlashNL]

no problem! I'm happy to be of any help...

[Ryo]

Did you use our map when you were traveling? Was it useful?

[FlashNL]

I had the original blanc world map of Garmin before I got your map (using the R5 now) and it changed my way of travelling here. Went more into land and took a lot more backroads. It made travelling by bicycle a lot easier! :cool: Though the lack of the names of the villages, forced me to still use a paper map as well (you can only find them as the names of some roads, which I find not very usefull on the GPS because you have to go over the roads with the cursor (you can't see them at once).

Plans just have changed though. I have to leave Vietnam, because they don't give me a 2nd extension. I'm in Hue atm and leaving to the Lao Bao border the day after tomorrow (have to wait for my passport, which is now in Hanoi). I don't think I'm going back to Vietnam then, but rather travel through Cambodia and Laos, since I'm heading back to Hanoi in September anyway. Then I get a 3-months visa at once and will try to finish the trip to HCM then. Getting really tired of all those visas everytime! I hope your map is of any use in those countries too :smile:

[lurkin]

The Vietnam parts of the map is the best, most detailed. Laos comes second and Cambodia contains only little details around Phnom Penh and Siem Riep. Would be great if you could collect some tracklogs and POI's from there.

Thanks

[FlashNL]

offcourse I will try to do my best! at least I keep logging the whole trip, so that's a start :smile:

[lurkin]

Thanks a lot in advance, very much appreciated :party:

I hope you don't mind me posting here the link to your photo's taken during your great trip!
Photo's here (You can see links before reply)

Very nice and interesting pics, thanks for sharing