Khe Sanh🏍🔧

Whats a good way to start the new year?
There a couple, changing a tire wasn't on the list to be honest but the universe decided this would be the right thing to kick it off.
Atfer I thankfully found a mechanic that was willing to help me, cause as I mentioned before, the Vietnamese people usually close everything and stop working for 8-10 days straight in order to celebrate their new year, and around two hours of almost losing a finger in the process of changing the damn tire we were on the road again.
Glad we packed a spare tube, otherwise I would have been stranded out here cause they didn't had any replacements stored.

Todays ride was not as long as usually but we arrived later than planned because of the unplanned breakdown.
In Khe Sanh, we went to the local museum, an ex-US base which featured a few vehicles and old trench systems.
The location that was meant to be strategic turned out to be a trap for the americans, resulting in 77 days of relentless bombing and assaults.
US-Soldiers who made it out gave the base the nickname "living hell"

In the afternoon, we had dinner in the only shop that had open in the whole town, luckily on the opposite site of our hotel.Read more