Laos: The Hidden Gem

Adventure Rider Issue #13

• It’s What We Do
• Cuba And The Blue Wave Rally
• Maschine
• Reader’s Ride: Sofala, NSW
• Ol’ Mate
• Fit Out: Touratech KLR650
• Wish You Were Here
• I Finke I Can
• Miles And A Shaw Thing
• Triumph Tiger XCx Long-Termer
• A Couple Of Mates In South Africa
• Laos: The Hidden Gem
• Highlights
• Aprilia Caponord
• Triumph Tiger 800 XRx
• The Madigan Line
• 60 Hours, Two Bikes And One Buffoon
• How To Ride With Miles Davis
• The Numbers Game
• As Good As It Gets With Karen Ramsay
• Checkout

In issue #12 Ian Bowden recounted the first leg of his mammoth, three-country ride through Indochina with Britton Adventures. We left him bunked down in Vietnam and ready to cross the border to a new challenge. His story continues.

Finally. Laos.

I’d been told years before I would love riding the ex-French colony, and I did. The riding was the best I’d experienced in Asia, and the food, people, and landscape were first class.