One-legged Matt's Laos tour

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One-legged Matt's Laos tourroute


One of our intrepid N.O.B riders, who had an accident first time out on his KTM 300 exc-e and is out of action for 6 months, is on his first tout of Laos. Armed with some great route information, he's currently still in Laos (in his truck) & is sending some photo's when he can get a data signal.

He's sent through some pretty good photo's already, more to come

 

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Where do the stairs go?





Maybe all the the bombs havn't been found

 

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Crazy drivers

 

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Making Charcoal






Stuck

 

[Loop]

Well done Matt.

We could have made it a duo...

 

[2wheels]

Well done Matt.
This reminds me of that Monty Python sketch ... " It's only a flesh wound." !!!!

 

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The endless stream of logging trucks

Ladies with pipes

Long long way back around if we don't attempt this

Won't be trying this one

 

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Doing a good job

A bridge in the making

Laos checkpoint

Laos-Vietnam border checkpoint

Some nasty erosion to deal with

Logging trucks

 

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Early rainy season road damage

Cute young girl with some fish she caught

Matt's truck attempting a water crossing

 

[KTMphil]

Then I came across this. I honestly was shitting my self. Look at the Toyota on the other side. It was fucking huge, storm moving in and getting dark.

4x4 vigo - I thought he was going down. I thought I'm not going back so I gave it a shot. It's boulders underneath so up and down. Made it over the water

Still blocked! Guy in a4x4 tried going around a different way and got stuck for an hour. Fair play to him he managed to get it out.

This is the view I had. Was a bit worried at this point.

 

[KTMphil]

I gave these woman a lift in the back of my truck for about 10km. I accelerated off a bridge and one face planted in the back of my truck - was really loud. Lucky she was ok

Even the 6 wheel drive truck got stuck it was that slippy. I almost fell off my crutches

Being towed

 

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Back to civilization. From here I drove to Vientiane for some modern luxurious

 

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Matt's route through Laos - 2,400km

Matt's route through Laos - 2,400km

He's even given some notation which will be useful in those regions

 

[Lone Rider]

Wow, and that all with a 2WD truck on the HoChiMinh trail - congratulations on getting through. Must have been scary at times I guess. Somehow I missed many of the pictures but it looks a great trip.

Good that you did not try to head north from Toumlan (you tried but went back). The road north is very bad with lots of big rocks and boulders in the road - even on a bike this is difficult.