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 The Vietnam expedition brought me vide around. The map below is a rough sketch of the tour:

Date  LP page Sight  (Orchid possibility)
8 HCMC Straight from int. flight to national: Da Nang
 Part 1 Taxi to Hoi An. Hotel
  Dive around Cham Island - inot in winter!
9 245 Hoi An city Old Town. Walking p 253
  Rent MC in Hoi An
  My Son + Marble Mountains
10 234 Hai Van Pass
232 Bach Ma National Park - or reserve?
  Return MC - almost
  Bus to Hue, 4+3h
11 215  Sleep in Hue city
220 Imperial Enclosure + FlagTower+ Thai Hoa pal.
221 Thai To Mieu Temple Complex - nursery
12 229 Tumb of Tu Duc+ Minh Mang 230
  Return MC
  Bus to Dong Hoi 4h
13 Part 2 203 Dong Hoi city, Rent MC
202 Phong Nha-Ke NP 15 km trail.
202 Phong Nha Cave Return MC
14   Bus Ninh Binh; 10H? 400km
Part 3 192 Stay in Ninh Binh. Rent MC
196 Van Long National drive through
197 Cuc Phuong NP p 196 + Botanical Garden
15   Drive to and sleep in Ba Vi National Park

16

123 Ba Vi National Park + Orchid Garden
  Sleep in Den Hung
17   Drive 297 km to Sa Pa
176 Sleep in Sa Pa city:
178 Sapa Marked +Terraced Rice Fields

18

179 Road to Lai Chau 1900m + Thac Bac WF
  Stay in Bac Ha
185    + marked + Vua Meo building
  Drive to Pho Rang and sleep

19

  Drive 255 km on miner roads!
  Sleep in Ba Be NP

20

162

See Ba Be NP
21 158-60 Cao Bang city Mountains
161 Ban Gioc Fall + Nguom Ngao Cave
  Sleep in That Kne
22 157 Lang Son city (NightMarked) Passing through
  Sleep in Halon City;

23

139 Halon Bay: Limestone Islands + caves
  Return MC in Ninh Binh
  Train to Hanoi 2,5 H
  Part 4 Sleep in Ha Noi Old Quarter.
91 Hanoi old quarter

24

94 Dong Xuan Market. Closed Tet
94 HCM Mausoleum area Map p88,32
95 One Pillar Pagoda. Map p88,38
96 Temple of Literature. P88,41
96 Ngoc Son Temple + tortoises in lake p92,29
101 Marked (6) p 102 Closed: Tet
101 Bach Ma Temple (12) p96,23
101 Dong Xuan Marked (15) p 117 Closed: Tet

 88,20

Botanical garden (20) p88,20 OR NOT
25   The awesome Ngoc Lan Nursery
26   Flight to Buon Ma Thout.
Part 5 328 Buon Ma Thuot city: Market Hole in the ground

27

  Rent MC

332 Yok Don National Park (guide 30$)
333 Dray Sap & Dray Nur falls
28  317 Dalat city
318 Hang Nga Crazy House
320 Xuan lake walk inc. Flower Garden
326 Tuyen Lam lake by cable car

29

328 Di Linh Bo Bla WF
30 328 Bao Loc: Dambri Falls 90m
31   Saigon Orchis & Flora +
406 Cat Tien National Park

1

  Return MC in Buon Ma Thout 300 km
2   The Ho Chi Minh trail
  Flight to HCMC 16.00

3

  Rent MC, go South (Mekong)
 Part 6 My Tho city
416 My Tho marked

4

423 Vinh Long city
424 Canals+Cai Be floating marked (low tide)

427

Tra Vinh nice city

5

442 Soc Trang city
443 Bat Pagoda
  Cai Rang city

6

440 Cai Rang floating marked  can't find the area
  Long Xuyen City, Cao Lanh City
433 Tram Chim National Park

7

  Drive east, sleep when dark...

8

  Cao Dai The See; Long Hoa+ Nui Ba Den 850m

  Drive east, stop in Dong Xoai

9

  Return MC in HCMC
Part 7 Saigon Orchids & Flora
10   Ho Chi Minh City p345
357 Jade Emperor Pagoda (346;16)
369 BG (346: 13)

363

Giac Lam pagoda (344; 5)
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13

  Fly home; 03.50

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