This section from La Gi to Vung Tau is the twenty-sixth instalment of my bicycle ride from Yunnan to Cambodia – if all goes according to plan. Titled “Slap the Belgian!”, it is simultaneously published on Crazyguyonabike.com, where you’ll find a map with the itinerary and many other bicycle diaries by me and others. I hope you’ll enjoy.
We get up at 5.30, snooze until 5.40 and then begin our drowsy ritual of packing. After a breakfast of oddly sweet pho – the worst we’ve had – we’re on the road by 6.50. We hope to avoid the heat this way but it’s already disgustingly hot out.
We want to get to the metropolitan area of two major cities called Vung Tau-Ba Ria, located on a peninsula on the east side of Saigon’s port channel. We’re in for a 100 km ride today, or a bit less if we follow the main road all the way.
