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RoutesThe Golden Triangle loop is the other classic ride out of Chiang Mai. The Mae Hong Son loop heads west into tight corners. This one heads north and ea...
TipsSearch "motorcycle tour companies" and you get a wall of near-identical homepages. Same drone shot of a switchback, same use of the word "adventure",...
TipsHanoi alone has dozens of companies selling the Ha Giang Loop. Plenty were founded in the last few years, and plenty subcontract the actual riding to...
TipsMotorcycle trips in Indonesia split cleanly into two kinds, and it helps to know which one you want before you look at dates. One is dirt riding on Ba...
TipsMorocco tour prices look wildly inconsistent until you divide them by the number of days. Do that and the spread collapses. Across the Morocco tours o...
TipsIn Morocco the company you book with changes the trip more than the route does. Two operators can ride the same road south from Marrakech over the Hig...
TipsThailand has the most developed motorcycle touring industry in Southeast Asia, and that cuts both ways. You can book a one-day ride out of Pattaya or...
TipsA guided 3-day Ha Giang Loop on the back of a local rider's motorbike, with beds, meals and fuel included, is listed on motomass.com at around 230 US...
TipsThere is no single best month to ride Vietnam. The country is about 1,650 km long and its regions run on different calendars. When Hanoi is dry and co...
RoutesThe Ha Giang Loop earns the noise made about it. Four days takes you from a river valley onto a limestone plateau and out onto a shelf of tarmac cut i...
TipsThailand is the hardest destination to compare on price. Operators quote in different currencies, over wildly different trip lengths, with inclusion l...
TipsThailand has three seasons, not two, and the third one is why so many riders come home disappointed. Cool and dry. Hot and smoky. Wet and green. The m...