By gabe.radke on Skatehive
For anyone with a motorbike here going over the Hai Van Pass is a right of passage of sorts. It isn't difficult and just like most places in Vietnam the roads are very well maintained so one need not worry about safety. src According to legend this winding road that leads to a beach city on the other side and eventually leads to Hue city, used to be the only method of getting over there. There was no other method to get over the mountains. Then they drilled a tunnel through and made a shortcut but this old road is still quite famous to take with motorists, so they never shut it down or just allowed it to deteriorate. Quite the opposite actually, it was in extremely good shape. The road marked QL1A is the new tunnel, over here on the right with the winding bits, that's the Hai Van Pass. I've been here for years and never got out there to actually do it. A friend was visiting and wanted to do it so I did. Once you cross over to the top of the mountain and get though the fog of the low ha