A short ride in the jungle: the Ho Chi Minh Trail by motorcycle

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The World's Deadliest Road -- The City of the Ascending Dragon -- Going Solo -- The Little Things -- The Sorrow of War -- Into the Long Mountains -- The Kid on the Karst -- The Race to Ban Laboy -- All Roads Lead to Sepon; -- Girl on a Pink Moped -- The Road to La Hap -- Panther Revolts -- The Bomb Brothers -- Down from Dak Cheung -- Mekong Sunsets -- Trail Hunting with Mr D -- The Lumphat Episode -- The Long Way Round -- A Saigon Conclusion.;The Ho Chi Minh Trail is one of the greatest feats of military engineering in history. But since the end of the Vietnam War much of this vast transport network has been reclaimed by jungle, while remaining sections are littered with a deadly legacy of unexploded bombs. For Antonia, a veteran of ridiculous adventures in unfeasible vehicles, the chance to explore the Trail before it's lost forever was a personal challenge she couldn't ignore - yet it would sometimes be a terrifying journey. Setting out from Hanoi on an ageing Honda Cub, she spent the next two months riding 2,000 miles through the mountains and jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Battling inhospitable terrain and multiple breakdowns, her experiences ranged from the touching to the hilarious, meeting former American fighter pilots, tribal chiefs, illegal loggers and bomb disposal experts. The story of her brave journey is thrilling and poignant: a unique insight into a little known face of Southeast Asia. The World's Deadliest Road -- The City of the Ascending Dragon -- Going Solo -- The Little Things -- The Sorrow of War -- Into the Long Mountains -- The Kid on the Karst -- The Race to Ban Laboy -- All Roads Lead to Sepon -- Girl on a Pink Moped -- The Road to La Hap -- Panther Revolts -- The Bomb Brothers -- Down from Dak Cheung -- Mekong Sunsets -- Trail Hunting with Mr D -- The Lumphat Episode -- The Long Way Round -- A Saigon Conclusion.