Sight Seeing Easy Rider Style

The Easy Riders are a group of tour guides who to multi-day trips through Vietnam.  Dalat is the origin of the organisation although you can find them all over Vietnam nowadays.  The client sits behind the guide/driver on a super cool motorbike (by Vietnamese standards) and gets to enjoy the scenery whizzing past.


There are apparently two groups of Easy Riders.  The Original Easy Riders and The Easy Rider Group.  I asked around what the difference is between the two.  Apparently the 'Group' is a splinter from the 'Original'.  The splinter 'Group' decided they would prefer to register with the authorities thus they have to pay a 'tax' but also enjoy a form of 'insurance'.  To me they are the same sh1t, just a different name.


Tue and I made a circuit to all the sights around and in Dalat.  The last and best of all is a hotel being built by an eccentric architect, Hang Nga (educated at Moscow University back in the day).  Hang Nga is heavily influenced by Dali so one feels they have been magically transported to Barcelona as you wonder around the hotel and its various alcoves.  As Murphy's Law dictates my camera battery died after a few shats at the 'Crazy House Hotel'.