Meandered through the congested and hectic streets of Hanoi dodging buses, trucks, cars, scooters, bicycles, pedestrians all going the same direction, across your path, cutting you off. You would think that driving on the far right would be a smart thing to do…noooooo…this is where the scooters and bikes drive of people needing to go in the other direction!!!
Eventually, we got to the main road Nguyen Trai and headed out to town. This turned into AH13 a divided highway with suppliers lanes and a new Metro system overhead running along the middle of this almost perfectly straight line. This eventually turned into QL6 and took us out of town.
A few hundred meters past a Toll booth(?) gate (toll for vehicles) at Bai Lang we turned south on some small road (called ATK on the maps) and followed it for some 30 km through the hills to the junction with DT2 in Kham where we turned right and 2 km later arrived at our destination for the night V Resort.
V Resort is a large complex with spa, hot spring waters, pool, lots of small bungalows in a dinky little village. We were the only guests!! Evidently they are fully booked Fridays-Sundays. The pool was to cold to swim but otherwise they were helpful (even though upon arrival no-one could speak anything other than Vietnamese. Later in the evening though, about half the staff and the restaurant staff could speak quite good english. It was extremely eerie though to sit in a huge restaurant as the only guests – had a bit of “The Shining” touch to it (old Jack Nicholson horror film).
