About to depart on the morning of the 2nd day on the bikes.

Mike and Steve in sand dunes of northern Gobi

Swapping bikes for camels - but only for a short time.

Countryside family at Erdene Zuu monastery in Kharkhorin 

Mongolian contorsionist

Break at the top of a pass looking back over Naiman Nuur

Riverside stop with some ger families while Rachael's puncture fixed

Baby yak in the river

We arrived back in New Zealand on Sunday 21 July after a very successful Mongolia Tour for 2013.  Everything went quite smoothly this year, amazing!  No drowned or rolled support vehicles - not knowing what has happened to our crew.  There were still a few self-inflicted rider injuries, broken bones among the list.  Fortunately none of it was life-threatening just a few weeks of healing required.
Rather than write a whole lot about the tour I'm just going to put up a few photos today and a few more in the following days.
Angela

Just over a week ago Mike and I returned from a 20 day tour in Vietnam.  We had five clients on the tour and we all had a fantastic trip.  All of the clients on the group really got into the Vietnamese food and we had some very memorable meals.  Even Mike and I who have been to Vietnam many times were impressed with the standard of the cuisine on this tour.
Pics below show the food we were served at the house of the White Thai hill tribe family we stay with in Mai Chau...and the one below that shows the same serving about 15-20 minutes later!

Hmmm, yes, well it has been a very loooong time since I posted on this blog!  More than two years in fact.  Why? Well I kind of forgot about it, and then  I couldn't remember my password, then time dragged on and I became too embarrassed to post.  But I decided it was high time to resurrect this blog.
We have had many adventures in Asia since my last post way back in October 2010.  And now we are also organising adventures in Bolivia, South America.  So I'm back in the saddle so to speak....so watch this space...more posts to come very soon.