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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",...
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 Chiang Mai...
LegalVietnam signed the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic in 2014. That one fact decides whether your foreign licence works here, because Vietnam reco...
TipsThailand's cool season runs November to February and it's dry across the whole country. Vietnam has no equivalent. The north, the centre and the south...
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...
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...
RoutesThe Mae Hong Son Loop turns people into repeat visitors. Roughly 600 kilometres in a circle west of Chiang Mai on Highways 108 and 1095, taking in mou...
RoutesEvery riding region has a warm-up road, and northern Thailand's is the Samoeng Loop. Roughly 100 kilometres in a circle northwest of Chiang Mai: out o...
RoutesMorocco's appeal to riders is geographic compression. One country gives you a 2,200-metre alpine pass, a gorge with 300-metre walls, a palm-oasis vall...
TipsMorocco has two excellent riding seasons, one that's merely acceptable and one that's genuinely hostile. Getting this right matters more than choosing...
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...