We left Mui Ne reasonably early for the final approach to Saigon, as we were expecting the last 30km to be ridiculous. In the morning the journey was a straight forward ride along quite quiet roads following the coast so that we could again avoid highway 1. We had our final bowl of Pho Bo (a meal I will not be sorry to see the back of) for lunch and then left town to find the roads had suddenly taken a turn for the worse. Luckily we had set off early enough to allow for this and we were soon on the edge of Saigon.
Though the traffic was insane and probably a lot worse than in Hanoi, the last leg of the trip didn’t actually take us that long, probably due to the fact that we had gained a little bit of confidence and knew how the roads worked a little better by this stage. We also saw our second bike crash whilst checking where we needed to head. Again it was a low speed crash between 2 bikes and within seconds both parties were helped to their feet and were on their way with no fuss (though bleeding slightly).
The feeling of finally arriving was amazing; we had covered exactly 2277km in 11 days of riding on some of the most dangerous roads in the world, using only a small scale tourist map to navigate and without any major incidents.
The complete route we took is shown on the map below (the map we actually used was nearly as good as this one!)
The last thing to do was to sell our bikes, now a little worse for wear, to some travellers planning to do the same trip in reverse.
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