POSTCARD FROM THAILAND: PART DEUX
Lisa Bamforth quit her job, flew to Thailand, bought a bike and headed off with a rough destination in mind. Here’s part two – over to Lisa!
One of the biggest adventures I was most looking forward to was the highly acclaimed Hai Van Pass – I since learned this is the road Jeremy Clarkson deemed ‘the best road in the world’. It’s a contender, Jezza, but you clearly didn’t spend enough time inland. The pass climbs from Da Nang along a tarmac’d road and sweeps round the face of the mountain in huge S-bends followed by a series of hairpins the higher you reached. It’s 21km of pure unadulterated views across the ocean, dropping down into the white sandy spit of Lang Co on the north side. With the pass closed to big traffic it is a great opportunity to stop and soak it all in at your leisure. It was pretty good I gotta say.