Motorbiking the Ha Giang Loop with my dad

We are lost. That is why you ******* travel. Hi. How do you say hello? Um, I'm not sure. Ciao. Here we are at Ba Be Lake in uh in the middle of northern east Vietnam. I'm about to go for a dip in the freshly cleaned pool. It's our accommodation. Jungle. It's been flooded. We're about to ride out of here in about half an hour and it's apparently flooded over the road so I think we're in for a bit of a treat. Dad's freaking out. There's no other way out? No other way. You think there's no chance of getting through? Yeah. Do you think if we went fast? No. Shit. The motorbike will die. Will die? We just got told from the owner here that we're stranded. Oh yeah. Not good. That is where we're meant to ride across. Nice view at least. Good view at least. Holy ----. Dad's trying to look tough in front of everyone. See you later. We made it baby and we're off. Never a moment knocked out. We're on the road baby. That'll do. Dude. Soaked. I've just realised I'm starting to recede like my ******* dad. Look at that. No problem. Who wants an omelette for dinner? At least we've got free food. Dad's on the scene. We've got a roadblock. Oh ****. No one cares about the car. Pit stop. Nang Mi Cafe. 188 Google reviews. 4.8 star. I always go off Google reviews. Google reviews. Never leave them but I always read them. Not long off a beer, tell you that much. Cheers. Right now we're in Kabong. Kabong. We're going to see a waterfall tomorrow. Kabong. Have a bong. Look at that. I just bought 4 beers 2 waters and not even $5. That's ******* unbelievable. That's bullshit. That's the only reason old men retire isn't it? Of course it is. That's not why Drew's here. And the Vietnamese massage. Oh ----. So to show you the map of what we're doing what we intend to do this is it. Start here in Hanoi. We've already drove up to Baba Lake. Then now we're in Kabong. Then tomorrow we'll go to the waterfall and then Angel and then back here for the night and then all this way, 10 hour drive up here to Dong Van then to Kwan Ba Do Gia then to Hai Giang and then all the way back down to Hanoi. It only says 30 hours of travelling but I would say that is about 70. For sure. Maybe more. This is a ******* baby boomer. Journaling. ------- A. Here I am on the laptop just typing away. Wholesome ----, eh? Special moment right now. The sun has just come out for the first time on this whole ******* trip. First time in about 72 hours. Look at that. Woo hoo hoo! Krusty Nasty! Krusty Nerd! Little pit stop. New shoes. Rate them out of 10 in the comments. How much? $20. $20? Did ya? ****, you got stung. Didn't you barter? Yes. We are the biggest tourist right now. ------- walking around with our GoPro's and ----. Imagine walking out of your hometown over here. Imagine walking out of your household and people just live here and seeing two people with ******* helmets on filming nothing. Hey! Yeah, that's a perfect example. We are the freaks. We are currently in China. What is that? When you drive three hours to a waterfall and you kinda don't really know what to do when you get here. It's like awkward. ****, look out mum. Leave him anywhere alone for two seconds and he's made 40 friends. Me as well. Oh yeah. Are you allowed to fly drones? Are you allowed to fly drones? No? ****. There's signs everywhere saying no drones. Anticipated drone launch. Do not try this at home kids. How's the pilot feeling? Nervous. Oh ----, what's going on? It's going to blow up. It's the Chinese government trying to tell us we've got 10 seconds before it snipers us. Oh yeah. We have liftoff. Look at the thumb. Oh my god, look at it. Look at the shakes. I've got to get out of that way. Those thumbs are doing some movement. I'm kidding myself. What the ****, what's that red dot on your forehead? Look at that. Any idea where? Yeah. You're not very steady on the trigger are you? No, that way? Yeah, there? No. Now go up in the sky. Slowly. You're going to cross. I don't even know what I'm doing here. Now you're going away from us. Am I? Yeah, what the **** are you doing? **** me. Watching a six year old try and play ******* computer games or something. Actually, that'd be way better. What are you doing you ****? I didn't do anything. Yeah, you did. Nothing's done easy with you. Dad's been put through many panic attacks this trip. It's only been three days. Well, um, next stop, Angel Eye. I don't know if you can see, if you need to take my word for how ******* gorgeous this whole ride is. It's actually, ****. Have a day. Cheers. The joys of travelling. It's a cliche, but it's not the destination. It's the journey. It's true, righto? Like the waterfall is just a ******* waterfall. How are you guys? You look better in the GoPro. We are lost. Oh. Oh, ****. Completely lost. Trying to find Angel Eye. Dad's freaking out. The sun's about to set. Please, I'm praying to God it's around this corner. Albert, one and a half have been lost. Oh, ****. Go to your left. Oh, that's it? Oh my God, we could be on. Alright, so we have found the eye. Angel Eye, but we're in the wrong spot and we're behind it. That's it there. It's not funny, it's not funny, but we just noticed we're on a ******* graveyard behind us. Dad goes, Oh, **** that. We're ******* out of here. That's ******* bad luck. Hello. Please, please, please. Ten hours. Ten hours today's been on the bike and we still haven't ******* found this ******* angel ******* mountain ******* eye ******* ****. Holy ----. We found it. Yeah. Holy ******* ****. That is why you ******* travel. I ******* love travelling so much. Makes me angry how happy I get, eh? Hope edit this well, please. Yeah, do your job, boy. Finally got to hold that drone. Just ******* fly the scene. Drone launch number three. When Jack says let's get the drone out, I really get worried that I'm never going to see it again. This country is fucked up. I think this is one of the best things. I say this so much, but it's true. I think this is one of the best things I've ever done. On a motorbike, there's something about it. You're just free. It's like watching time stop still when you watch your parents deal with technology. Go fly. Where's us? That's forward. No, that's up. You just said this is up. The roads are amazing. The roads are insane. They're most perfect. It's very nice. There's cooking when I can't get it. It's the best treat home for a day trip. It's the place I love when the sun's hitting. I just spat the dummy. Dad's had to go for a walk. ------- hell, I just followed my ******* Google Maps with satellite and the piece of ----. I saw a place we've already passed two days ago. I was like, nah, this is not ******* happening. It turns out we've cut through the ******* country. Through the whole loop. Missed all the good bits. Now we're three hours from the good bits. It's times like this when I wonder if I have anger problems. I didn't film. Apparently this next bit of the ride is the most magical of the whole loop anyway. We're still good. We're good. It hates me. Look at all these leaves. That was sketchy. So many tool groups. They're all riding on the back of people. Is that funny? Not a fan of tours myself. Nothing against them. Not a fan though. Don't like it. You get no control. Stop when they stop. Eat lunches when they eat. It's like my biggest fears going on a tour. Hate tours. Control freak maybe. Maybe I'm a control freak. Actually I am a control freak. It's pretty peaceful. Look at that ******* cliff. I don't even know. That is fucked up. I'll just stop swearing. Oh my God. Does that look big in this GoPro? Because it is. It is that big. Which is pretty big. Tell you what you can do when you're alone in a different country. No one around you. This. Stop you crying. It's the sign of the times. We gotta get away from here. It'll be alright. Two influences one. Shit yeah. We made it. To ******* scummy Skyline Ping or something. Left Bok Choy. Went through Croisac. Here we are here. It's not called Bok Choy. We're having lunch but the drive to Bok Choy through this valley was like nothing I've never seen. Cheers. What the ****. Gold porn. We come from a place for like the last three days that had no one on it because it wasn't like a commercialised place to go for like motorbike. Whereas this is. This is a very famous backpacking like loop that everyone does. We've already seen like ten tours in ten minutes. Just English geezers it's so funny. Whereas the last three days you're just on this in the middle of nowhere and they're all like so surprised to see a white person you know. Still ******* amazing but it's a shame they try and commercialise everything that's nice you know. There's very few places in life that are left but oy. You've got a beer you're overseas. Good company. Sun's coming out. And you have nothing to worry about. But soap. Editing this video well. **** good luck I've filmed that much random ----. What is that? Oh my god. Do not look left. People live up here. That is fucked up. We've had a big few days. So we've treated ourselves to the first nice new home state. Look at that. Midget pub. This is ******* great. Wow. I think 30 or 40 dollars each. Which is like real expensive for over here. And having my own room. It's not like I'm sleeping in Antarctica. Unless you can have my temperature. 18 degrees Celsius is the optimal temperature for a man in Australia. I think the world. For the best sleep. It's pretty cold but you sleep good. Bit sick. Bit dusty. I'm not hung over. The Vietnamese flu's hit me. Or is it the man flu? Probably the man flu to be honest. Body tingles. Sweats. Aches. But oy. What a place to be sick ay. **** me. Unbelievable. Dad's going to see a waterfall right now so I mean I obviously shouldn't but how the **** can you let your dad go see a waterfall and you as a son not go. So we move on. We move on. Oh I feel so much better after that swim. This place is unbelievable. It's actually insane. Everywhere. It's gorgeous. Oh ----. Here we are back in civilisation after 8 days on the road. Dad's lost the words. Honestly we're so happy to be down like a I don't know just civilisation. Look at that. Cocktails. Club sandwich. Little things in life. But all in all that was the best. One of the best things I've ever done in my life. Honestly. Insane. Mountain biking. Motorbiking through the mountains of North East Vietnam. Unbelievable. It's like Switzerland. It's like Switzerland but dollar beers opposed to 20 dollar beers. And maybe a little bit worse accommodation. And a few more floods. What was your favourite thing? Driving. Being on the road. The scenery changes. Hour to hour. Something about when you could be stressed in the morning or whatever. Then the second you get on the bike everything just changes. You're just so happy. It's the best thing in the world. Really recommend doing it. Subscribe. Hope you enjoy the video. And yeah. Cheers. We made it. Home safe.