after all of the drama and mishaps of landslides and flat tires from the
previous day's adventure we find shelter at this beautiful family's guest house
and we experience one of the most heartwarming local experiences today
but things are going to change this is vietnam there's going to be rain there's going to be
more flat tires but maybe just maybe we'll end up somewhere absolutely incredible enjoy this episode
okay welcome back um the lady here who runs this guest house that i conveniently
had a flat tire just outside she's inviting me for dinner with her family at 7 p.m
but it's half past three and i haven't eaten anything all day and i'm starving
so she's going to cook me some noodles with egg someone's gonna come and fix the bike i'm
gonna sleep here tonight enjoy this area tomorrow morning wake up and explore this lake which looks
absolutely beautiful fingers crossed the weather is good and then we'll hit the road and hopefully
we won't get any more flat tires because we had two yesterday or today but in the previous video
look how muddy my shoes are
okay
double bed
shoes okay and have a look at this million dollar view
wow it's a shame my room doesn't have a window but i'll be coming out here
in the morning for a coffee this is babe lake even in a lightning storm and rain
covered in mud and a broken bike and starving it is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen
some fried noodles some omelette sliced up on top and some greens don't see any meat
but that's fine let's cover this in chili sauce and this is going to last 30 seconds
so
the day before i flew to vietnam i bought a nintendo switch because it's quite a lot of
dine time when you're traveling solo you know i drive and i have an adventure and i film for
you and i edit obviously you know here's all my gear lined up on the table obviously i just flew
the drone to show you this amazing lake and to see just how epic it is in every direction
it's incredible right but yeah there's a kid staying here and i wonder if he wants to play
he's never played before so you're in the bus
we're gonna jump out the bus and we're gonna kill everybody see here b jump
some buffalo
a little baby one
foreign
okay uh
me
what i said was we are truly i mean garu said it himself they are too reliant on kane's girls
especially with the players we have so that's a consensus it is a concern
god knows i'm the assistant mason mountain is near the top of this his
charts for chelsea and scoring good goals for them
i'm trying my first vietnamese coffee
yeah into this glass and it looks like that there's condensed milk at the bottom here
oh wow that's sweet my jeans are still wet and my bike is still broken so i think i'm going to go on
a boat and go explore this lake and hopefully my jeans and my bike are ready to go when i get back
all right
wow look at this
and to think we would never have stopped if we hadn't broken down
so everything happens for a reason
so
all right i have a problem with this guy i don't like menu i don't like very bad just kidding
thank you you're welcome nice to meet you thank you yeah nice to meet you
it must mean hello i thought he said sit down so i just sat on a plastic chair and
they looked at me like what are you doing i'm paying 200 000 dong or 10 us dollars
for a one hour tour and we're gonna go check out this temple
xin zhao sit down
so this particular deity seems to appreciate sugary sweet things because the vietnamese
people here are leaving boxes of cookies cans of coke chocolate pies burning incense
so there's no fruit or money offerings here it's obviously a very sweet toothed deity
and i see buddha images at the top and i see dragons wrapped around the roof
so it's a buddhist temple i just don't find any information online or anywhere here in english
about what this is but it's beautiful and these flags
in this rainforest humid little island on this lake it's quite beautiful and quite unique
is this a snack complimentary snack
it's a bit dry let me try it with the chilli sauce
so much better
the vietnamese word for hello sounds like the english word for sit down that's why i sat down
stupid foreign
uh
so
all right thank you so much bye bye bye bye bye you guys are awesome thank you oh kickstand
so guess how much they charged me for a night in a private room with that view right noodles
when i arrived dinner with the family in the evening two cold beers some rum with banana in it
a big bowl of uh noodles again this morning a private tour of the lake and visiting the temple
and just all around really hospitable welcoming experience guess how much it was
520 000 vietnamese dong which is around 22 us dollars which is absolutely ridiculously cheap
so if you're in northern vietnam and you want to come see a beautiful lake with some cool family
the link to their hotel is in the description today we're trying to get to a town called cabal
but there's been quite a lot of problems on the road
the landslides i've also seen a lot of police checkpoints but luckily i've just driven past
some but our luck is going to run out eventually and we'll see what they want they seem to be just
stopping local people checking helmets checking licenses so hopefully hopefully it's okay
but anyway i know another adventure as always awaits us in front we need fuel and we've
got a day to ride through these beautiful mountains of northern vietnam so let's go
what are you chomping down on babe what is is it yummy
this is such a beautiful moment for me right now
riding on the road open road solo
you guys with me crossing a beautiful bridge i mean have a look at the scenes here
and i've got taylor swift in my ear singing a nice song
life doesn't get any better
i want her to notice
what i don't notice
space
but i'm here i'm here
won't she turn around
won't she look at me
won't she turn around
won't she look at me
oh please
third wheel in two
okay so as annoying as getting a flat tire is i think we've actually potentially found
the reason so i told him using google translate to have a really good look at this tire because
three flats in just over 24 hours is not normal i think i had five flat tires in 13 months
in thailand and every single time it was a pin or a nail it was just bad luck and when he inspected
this we looked he showed me inside there's so much wear and tear and thin thinned out areas that i
think it's just causing the punches so i'm gonna bite the bullet and purchase a brand new tire
and a new inner tube and we'll hopefully fix the constant flat tires because it's costing me about
a hundred thousand dong per flat tire that's three hundred thousand in one day now if we keep doing
this for three months you do the math so let's purchase a new tire and let's hope that this
doesn't happen anymore because it's proper annoying okay thanks bye as much as i love
boosting the vietnamese economy by getting a flat tire and seemingly every village
uh we've upgraded the tie we've got a sexy brand new rubber tyre
and it cost me four hundred 000 dong plus the new inner tube
so that should hopefully solve that issue if i get another flat tire later on like in an hour
i'm gonna be pissed one hour to cowboa i think that's correct we'll rest there tonight
i heard there's pizza there
it's official that was one of the best days on the road so far not just in vietnam
but in my entire life waking up at that lake and having that really
beautiful local experience with the family was incredible followed by a very
adventurous rainy mountain twisty road all the way to a city in the northern mountains
once i arrived i checked into a guest house and i paid four hundred thousand dong the room was
very clean and comfortable and i had a really nice hot shower followed by some beers and some pizza
this town seemed really cool and we were going to be using this as a base for the next few days
as we explore some of the most incredible scenes in north eastern vietnam what we're
about to experience is some of the most mind-blowing scenes i've ever seen and one
of the most incredible waterfalls on planet earth but all of this will have to wait until next time
thanks for watching and i'll see you soon
you