Ban Saenphan on the ho chi minh trail Starting at Ban Langkhang off Route 12, you can join the Ho Chi Minh Trail and travel down to Ban Saenphan, which is just before the second Xe Bangfai crossing. There used to be ‘flyers’ available telling us about things of interest down the trail, but …
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The Start The initial plan to walk the Ho Chi Minh Trail was a light hearted comment back May 2020. But living with the never ending pandemic and the delays in how to handle it. The hopes of getting back to work seem further away than ever. We have had only 22 cases of covid …
Surface To Air Missile Sites in Laos. Sam’s (Surface to Air Missiles) were used as air defence against American planes in Vietnam and Laos, with a huge degree of success. Flying through the sky at Mach 3 and guided by radar, once the SAM was close enough to its target it exploded. If the …
The Mụ Giạ Pass is a mountain pass in the Annamite Range between North Vietnam and Laos. It connects National Road 15 from Tân Ấp in Vietnam, to Route 12 in the Khammouane Province in Laos. Set in a huge valley, the Pass became known as the ‘bowl of fire’. Part of a network coded …
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MIA (Missing in Action) Crash Sites In Laos Time on my hands, bookings getting cancelled, and the future is uncertain. Time to do something we’ve been planning for some time; explore crash sites along the Trail in Laos. So let’s go. My good friend Mr Rudi flies into Vientiane and I ship a bike …
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NVA Tunnel Complex, West of Xepon Just west of Xepon, the NVA (Northern Vietnamese Army) built a tunnel complex between 2 mountains along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It served as a base on the Trail among other things. Inside the tunnel has collapsed. So it still holds a few secrets which we will …
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Crossing the Xe Bangfai River When I first came to Laos to ride, river crossings were plentiful and mainly by small canoes. Today it’s a bit different, many have been forded and many new bridges are being constructed leaving the old bridges to nature. The crossing I talk about here is the Xe Bangfai …
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Ban Laboy Ford was a key crossing into Laos from Vietnam and one of the most important choke points. It joined a labyrinth of trails for the Vietnamese to disappear into… What is a ‘choke point’? Choke points are basically intersections of roads, where they meet or cross. Hence, they were targets for the …
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The Ho Chi Minh Trail Website A Long Time Coming It’s been a long time coming getting the Ho Chi Minh Trail site up and running, years in fact. Hard to believe I bought the domain 6 years ago! After I initially got the site all done, then came the technical difficulties and frustrating …
The old road that goes from Ban Dong to Muang Nong is 95% complete, complete means it’s been paved over… This is happening all over Laos, not just the Ho Chi Minh Trail. I guess it’s what we call progress. Laos cannot stay still as much as us off roaders would like it to. Infrastructure …
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