Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Returning to Vietnam

Before any tour I always wonder what will have changed since we last rode it? After a Covid-imposed absence, we headed back to Cambodia at the end of 2023.

Featuring high on my list of often overlooked riding destinations, along with Central America, when people think of riding in Cambodia they seem to envisage a full-on, off-road dirt bike ride akin to a rally or thrashing around on rented scooters dodging death by cocaine-fuelled bus drivers. Thankfully there is an alternative to both. We take GSs and explore the length of the country – from tracks alongside

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