Monday 11 May 2015

Ban Gioc Waterfall - photos from the China side

Prince666 over on the RideAsia.net forum kindly posted up some great photos of Ban Gioc waterfall as experienced from the Chinese side.  As I mentioned in a previous post, the waterfall sits right on the border with one half of the river and waterfall in Vietnam, and the other half in China!  Prince was happy for me to re-post these photos here.  In China, it's called 'Detian Waterfall'.




















Friday 8 May 2015

NamBusters video Part 1

After struggling with the GoPro editor for a few weeks, trying (and failing) to knock up a half decent bit of footage for the first day or so, I finally gave up.

Out goes GoPro editor, in comes iMovie on the mac.

4 hrs later, job's a good 'un.

This was shot on the first day out on tour, starting in Hanoi, where it rained for a few miles, then out of the city and through the surrounding areas.  We stopped that night at Ba Be Lake but unfortunately I don't have any footage from later in the day as we arrived - however there will be some from the following day on the next vid.

I'm resolving not to do a death-by-gopro type video, instead I think it's best if I do a video covering every day or two and keep gopro shots brief, cutting in some other off-the-bike footage if I have any.  I'm no video guru, this is my first attempt but it seems to have come out quite well.

I'm happy to upload some lengthier 'raw' gopro footage on request if anyone wants to get a real flavour of what it's like generally just riding around in Nam.

Anyway, enough waffle, here's the vid.  Be sure to watch to the end.  There should be another one to follow it over the next week or so.