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6/3/2025
Nha Trang to Da Lat
ATD 0800
ATA 1130
Ride time 3.5 hours
Da Lat is located in the highlands of Vietnam and at a altitude of 1500m ASL.
Temperature at night can go to 16 Celsius.
Cool ride up to the mountains.
Will be staying 4 nights here as have a few day routes planned.
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7/3/2025
Da Lat
Went to a seamstress to repair my Clover jacket pocket. Done in 5 minutes.
Did oil change for the XR150. Oil change is at every 1,000kms.
Also serviced the rear brake which wasn't really effective.
Went for a loop of the Lake route which took about 2 hours of slow riding.
This was tasteless.
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8/3/2025
Took another loop on the Da Lat mountain area and another 2 hours of enjoyable slow scenic riding.
Went to get the side mirror fixed as the mirror wouldn't stay in place. just flapping around.
Went back to the bike shop I went yesterday. This guy is good and experienced. If he was in my hometown he would be my regular mechanic to wok on my bike.
Tomorrow I head to Buon Ma Thuot. But with the ride time I might stay overnight at a town named Nonh Truong Ro Mai.
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9/3/2025
Da Lat
Feeling lazy so no day ride today.
The trip report is current now.
Planning for tomorrow's ride. Time to head back on the road.
Going for a cup of coffee later and look for a light lunch.

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It's been raining since 1400hrs at Da Lat.
I didn't even go out for lunch.
Just walked out 10 minutes for dinner and then back to the homestay.
Tomorrow morning refuel the bike and on the road again.
Hoping for better weather tomorrow.

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10/3/2025 Da Lat to Nnoh Truong Ro Mai + Buon Ma Thout
ATD 0840
ATA 1600
Ride time 7.5 hours
Nice ride up the mountains. Supposed to stay overnight at Nonh Truong Ro Mai but when I had my lunch there it was a dusty hot town so I decided to move on to the coffee city of Buon Ma Thout. Booked a room using booking.com while having my lunch.
After arriving at my hotel at Buon Ma Thout, I was told the room was not available. There is a coffee festival which started today. I kicked a fuss with the hotel that they could not simply accept my booking without ensuring that they had the room. They only apologized but would not give me a room.
I left the hotel and spent the next 3 hours searching for a room. There were 2 hotels who had room but one wanted double the rate and another wanted close to triple the rate for the room. I finally found a room but it was below my expectation.
I had to use a towel over the pillow as the pillow covers had hair and yellowish stains on them. The mattress was also thin AF but I needed a room to sleep as it was already about 1900hrs by then. Wifi was also intermittent.
It did have hot water, bike was safely parked inside the hotel.
I would check out next morning and leave BMT since there were no rooms in all the hotels due to the coffee festival and the traffic was also crazy with many roads in the main city closed.
I arrived BMT and left without seeing anything!
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11/3/2025
Buon Ma Thout to Ninh Hoa
ATD 0815
ATA 1215
Ride time 4 hours
Got out of BMT and on the boring QL26 road except for the last hour which had some twisties.
The hotel I booked here is a 180 degree over the accommodation at BMT.
Went for a 4km walk/run for some cardio exercise. My belly is getting bigger.
 
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12/3/2025
0200 hrs
Woke up and rushed to the toilet! Fark!
Having the diarrhea shits ........................
I know it's not a matter of if but when I will get diarrhea from all my travelling. This my 10th bike tour with each tour at least 3 to 4 weeks in duration. I had a slight discomfort in Saigon when I ate at the Indian restaurant for dinner but the next day was ok. In my other 9 tours I had not experienced any diarrhea and ate whatever the locals ate.
This one wasn't so easy to shrug off. I had originally planned to stay a night only at Ninh Hoa but decided to stay another night to recover as I was feeling weak and might need to go to the toilet at any bloody time.
 
Most likely came from the unhygienic food I had for lunch.
By my estimate I slept almost 20 hours. Had the hotel get me some fried rice for lunch but I couldn't finish it and skipped dinner. I carry some diarrhea medication when I travelled and it helped.
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