Digby's Journal
Gasoline, Grit and the Great Escape
Field notes, reflections, and insights gathered over decades of exploring Asia’s backroads. Browse our motorcycle touring journal and see where the trail has taken us.
Laos is ‘contaminated’ by UXO (unexploded ordinance) which kills and maims people and renders land unusable. Laos accounts for more than half of all confirmed cluster sub-munition casualties in the world.
Explore Indochina motorbike tours are tailored to allow for spontaneity and off-the-beaten-path detours. You’ll spend less time worrying about logistics and more time focusing on what you came to do—riding and exploring.
One of the world’s most popular shows teamed up with Explore Indochina to make TV magic. Top Gear: Vietnam Special was absolutely legendary.
Some areas of the Ho Chi Minh Trail are completely riddled with bomb craters
We've spent more than 20 years exploring and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, and have compiled this set of images comparing what it looked like then with now.
Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation is a Hanoi-based charity. It helps children escape slavery and forced labour, and provides housing, employment and education.
Cluster bombs, shell casings, and original cobblestoned sections of the Ho Chi Minh Trail can still be seen in Laos. Explore our massive Ho Chi Minh Trail image gallery.
Since its foundation in 1996, COPE Laos has assisted thousands of people with mobility-related problems, including UXO (unexploded ordinance) survivors.
For Gordon's Great Escape, great Gordon Ramsay cooked up a storm, was polite as a bluebell, and wanted to buy our 650cc Ural motorcycle.