53 | 9 JOURS POUR QUITTER LE PAYS ! | Bike touring au Vietnam
welcome to this new video we have to quickly leave Vietnam because our visas have expired and we have 9 days to leave the country but the thing is that we are not going to take the shortest route we are going to go down south in Vinh before undertaking the crossing to the west to return to Laos and that therefore means that we have no time to lose Good episode we are Jade and Yanouk we left everything to go on the roads of the world our goal is to reach Malaysia from France by bike every week we invite you into our daily lives to live our craziest adventures after having spent three extraordinary weeks with the parents at Jade who came to see us at Vietnam we visited the region of Ninh Binh we went up to the north to meet the people of the Black H'Mongs to then visit one of the most unmissable places in the country, Halong Bay, in short , we had an extraordinary vacation. is in return we had to leave them and it was rather difficult you probably saw her in the last episode and we have to get back on our feet quickly because we have to leave the country the visas don't wait anyway j say no more will we manage to reach Laos in time will we have problems at the border and well we invite you to watch the episode until the end we start this race first going to get our visas at the embassy in Hanoi well the mission today going to the Laos embassy to get our visas it's the first time we have to go directly to the embassy it's always been either in line or directly at the border but hey we'll see what happens I don't think there's any reason to be nervous we're coming from the embassy obviously I didn't film because it's an embassy but in big we have to find a way to take pictures for our visa and here we are in the middle of looking for our shop that could take our picture immediately and then go back to the embassy honestly we were lucky because in a few minutes we found exactly what we were looking for five minutes it was done we have four pictures we are going to be good for a hell of a long time and it cost us 40,000 dong per person that's it that means 10 miles dong the photo and that means that 10,000 dong is not even a dollar that that's awesome business that's great went well it took a few minutes to fill in the form paste our little passport photo and it's good to come back this afternoon or tomorrow morning there's no problem well there's no reason why we haven't not our visa for Laos. we are leaving for the first official green pedal stroke in the south of Southeast Asia and really we would like to thank the Amorita hotel which kept our bikes for three weeks really it is a place that we warmly recommend to you in Hanoi they were super nice and understanding and three weeks is not nothing we thank you if you watch this video and for us we are going to give our first pedal strokes here we go it's really not easy to pedal in Hanoi we are used to it but you have to have eyes all around your head and really take yourself for a moped come on I'm going to take both hands to be totally transparent with you the return to the saddle does not go as planned barely a few kilometers traveled that the morale at Jade has failed we know that we are privileged to travel so it is even more difficult to show the hard times we are moving a little backwards we have to review the rest of the adventure but for the moment the visas do not wait we have to ride day 2 of the recovery since the departure from Hanoi mentally the weather does things and on the other hand it is the main road All along and there we have a little break and it is frankly good we realize how much it's noisy stressful the sound of the horns of the big trucks and it's been an hour since we left I feel like my day is over in terms of exhaustion it's going to be like that until the border of the Laos we believe so we still have a few more days like that and we'll see what it will give to Laos it's pretty happy but it doesn't matter because we have peace no noise a little breeze to refresh us so we push the bikes and we haven't told you yet we haven't introduced it to you yet but we changed our pannier system and we're much lighter than before and we feel it especially now when we go uphill oh that we gave ourselves a difficult life it's the last 15 months and there much more lé ger so we advance much faster as much on the flat we have a much higher pace and also in the climbs necessarily it is better so it is the price to pay to have peace of mind a little Gravel and hills but we have a nice tailwind Good day 3. Day 3? Two nights ? this morning we woke up very early hello this morning we got up very early and it's paying off because we've already done 50 km it's 10 a.m. we're taking a little break in the shade we're watching because the heat is starting to rise we really want to bivouac but it's still really not easy today it's the main road so it's rather complicated to find green spaces and also that we couldn't pitch the tent at 12:30 p.m. at the hotel we can land and it's settled anyway I think it's
going to be rather where are we going we're going we're going to put ourselves in wild mode 80 km in the legs and it's 12:30 p.m. it's super hot we thought we'd finish a little earlier I won't hide it from you because we got up earlier this morning but it's been a long day we'll finish at this time if we arrive in the middle of town it's so impossible for us would have to go beyond the city and still hope to find a small piece of wood to put the tent the only hotel we found is a hotel at 20 dollars and in Vietnam 20 dollars is a big hotel I put I have big expectations because yesterday we were paid 8 dollars or 9 dollars for two and the day before yesterday in a dormitory same price with breakfast included for two for me it's a perfect day because we do a lot of kilometers in the morning and in the afternoon as we are in a hotel we spend the whole afternoon in the air conditioning to rest in fact for Jade and I I take full advantage of it to do some editing because there are a lot of subscribers who were wondering how I get there how I manage how I put together the bike trip and the editing to provide one video a week and many days like that it's perfect I'm going to do a lot of editing a lot of hours of editing this afternoon to sleep well tonight it's good room 419 I'm degelasse. So we just have to rest it's crazy how on a bike we appreciate the little things like having a real bed to tell the truth the timing is perfect for editing but sometimes the energy is not there so I try as well as my dear French but sometimes the result it gives this we it's Jade and Yanouk so a little nap maybe this afternoon tonight on the spaghetti Bolognese menu and yes we're cooking tonight it's the first time I go out with a stove in Vietnam to cook good old pasta directly on the balcony of the hotel in fact the thing is that it's a gas stove We were looking for gas just now at less than 1 dollar for the short filling but the thing is that you have to heat the gasoline and it still makes big flames so that it turns into gas so it was not very incognito our business but it is good we were not warned we will eat well tonight the plan is to go to bed very early tonight p because tomorrow morning we're going to get up very early even more I think this morning to make sure we're not as hot as today so we're going to bed soon good night today rainy day so it might be to be rather pleasant in terms of temperature and we are off to a good start this day because Jade has a puncture on the front wheel and there I think that in our puncture contest we have reached because it has been quite a long time since you haven't seen it in the episodes it's been since Georgia I don't think Kyrgyzstan it's true and there I think it's 10 to 8 I'll see in the edit if I'm telling the truth so it takes some advance I risk winning this morning we left the main road and which means that we pass through small villages and it's really cool to see the hinterland of Vietnam just there to my left there are little children playing and women picking vegetables not rice because it's not the season and it's is very peaceful it starts well the day well we are going to take the big right because the small dirt roads with the mud holes and everything we are not progressing very fast so we are going to return to the main road with the noise the traffic but at least we go much faster and it's a little less demanding on the body because it's more asphalt let's say go back on the main road we broke that we have around 60 kilometers without really stopping a lot of people all of a sudden words from Quebec I think and we arrived in the town of Vinh where we are going to land for the rest of the day there it is 10:45 a.m. we have worked really well this morning and tomorrow that is where we are going to take the Cape towards l 'West to arrive at the border of Laos 11 am we are checked-in we are in our hotel room we assured today it was a super nice day and I show you what our room looks like at 9 dollars here a happy mixture of dirt and tan we are disgusting and for J ade it's even worse in fact we paid 9 dollars on agoda and for real it does the job well it's maybe not the cleanest hotel in the universe and I don't know if we can trust to the sheets that are on the bed. Not the most comfortable beds either yesterday I put my mattress on the bed to be even
more comfortable and I think that's what I'm going to do tonight too and sleep in my sheet but at $9 we don't full step Day 5 we are leaving the city of Vinh and I don't know why but it is today that we are really more capable of the traffic of the chaos of Vietnamese traffic and there our objective is to do 60 km today to approach the border and tomorrow in principle we will cross into Laos so we are on time We thought we would be slow to get out but we have worked really well that this day starts it starts rather with the left foot in done because we woke up this morning and then the puncture change didn't work that means there's still the little thing in the tire that causes us to puncture in fact that Jade punctures we haven't found it yet this morning we cross our fingers so that tomorrow morning it will still be swollen end day 5 we took a hotel room as usual in Vietnam and you saw and there we are infested with Asian hornets There is no ceiling! When the curtain buzzes it's not a good sign after a good 45 minutes to manage this absurd situation we can finally rest we would like to thank our new Patreon contributors thanks to Mathieu Goulet Yves Leboeuf and Jimmy Bourassa thank you all for supporting the adventure and if you too want to join the Patreon community and thus have exclusive content the link is in the description or at the end of the video tonight we cook we take out the stove and we are very happy with that because that It 's been a long time since we took back the pans and since we eat really cheap in Vietnam but inevitably we always eat at the restaurant but there we wanted to make a change and cook our own things and we're going to cook veggie tonight because it's also eating veggie in Vietnam it's not easy No I'm kidding, it's extremely hot day 6 it's what's starting and today we're going to cross the border to Laos no hope not everything go well go the day is about almost 30 km to get to the border but you have to cross a mountain range that separates Vietnam from Laos and therefore we will climb almost 1000 meters in altitude in 28km it may be a great day all the same at the thigh level not at the mileage level that's it the ascent has begun and I must admit that with all the dust that we receive from the big trucks and the pollution it's not easy for our little lungs we going to work hard this morning to deserve Laos honestly it's climbing but it's pedaling so it's not so bad but it's sure that with the humid temperature we sweat a lot quickly but at least it's pedaling for the moment we is 2 km from arriving at the border and it's endless it's really difficult morale takes a hit and there the road is not built so it's mud and big trucks honking at us in the ears to encourage us and "no man no please" finally b ref it's a bit of a mess there that's it we arrive at the border A Laotian stopped to ask us if we had our visas because we have to have it before I was like yes yes don't worry no I'm not going down it would be hell even the descent to return to Hanoi it would be hell so much that the paths are in mud. it feels good mission accomplished finally almost it remains to be seen if everything will go well obviously I did not take out the camera when going through customs but let's say that it almost went as planned mission accomplished we are now in Laos that it went rather well there are just at the exit of the Vietnamese customs that there are customs officers asking us for 50,000 dong per person so we are clearly we clearly know that it was corruption but afterwards we had to pay 10,000 dong for stamps in Laos it's not even $1 that's ok and it was posted while the customs officers at 50,000 in short we were not in a position of strength so we paid 100,000 dong here we are at the Laos we are very happy to be here and we are also very happy to know that it will go down to the next city Laos here we are! level bike he did not care no dig neither on the Vietnamese side nor on the Laotian side oh I'm happy there are bivouac spots everywhere at the moment find our tent our new tent that we haven't tried yet I'm reconcile with this day because there we receive big smiles from Laotians. They seem super nice it's really very very nice It feels really good and we find a much better cruising speed we are around 27 km / h which is quite good that this afternoon is much better than this morning We arrived in the big city of Lak Sao Big city it's relative And we took 2 nights in a place to have a full day of rest and yesterday we paid 8 dollars to have a room really rotten none window with a little ventilation $7 small difference in price I don't want people to find us stupid for 50 cents No it was still $3 sorry $7 for a rotten room and finally we asked if we could have we could stay another night with another room that would have a window and for 10 dollars we have a balcony we have a bathtub we seem to have air conditioning anyway sometimes it's worth paying a little more and that's mission accomplished we're returned to Laos on time That was when even a small race where we pushed several kilometers a day to get there but it's good now we'll be able to reduce the pace to slow everything down and enjoy it and this is where we're going to let ourselves go for this week the week next we are going to take you with us on our first week of adventure and maybe who knows bivouac in Laos but until then rest well thank you very much we say see you soon for a next video Ciao
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