Motorbiking through North Eastern Vietnam Hiring motorbikes in Vietnam is something that is on many travellers’ bucket lists. Back in 2008 I and my good friend Dan decided to rent a motorbike each and disappear for a week. Tourism to Vietnam had only opened up a few years prior, so there were still plenty of undiscovered gems in this beautiful country. A week or so earlier a friend and I hired a scooter each and rode from Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) down in the Mekong delta for a 3-day road trip. This was where the idea for our North Eastern Vietnam road trip came from. We chose this part of the country as almost every tourist we’d met had headed northwest to Sapa. Even today the northeast of the country is still relatively unexplored in a backpacking sense. Back in 2008, we didn’t see another foreign tourist until we…