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The Worlds 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 its lost forever was a personal challenge she couldnt 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.

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Compassionately but without sentimentality Ants describes lands victimised in - photo 1
Compassionately but without sentimentality Ants describes lands victimised in - photo 2
Compassionately but without sentimentality, Ants describes lands victimised in the recent past by militarism at its worst and now assaulted by consumerism at its most ruthless. She also provides many entertaining vignettes of eccentrics met en route, disasters narrowly avoided and happy encounters with kind people in remote regions of wondrous beauty.
Dervla Murphy, travel writer
Antonia Bolingbroke-Kents new book is a gripping travelogue which is at once both intimate and worldly-wise. Honest in her bravery (and brave in her honesty), she recounts a thrilling journey
Charlie Carroll, author of No Fixed Abode
An epic book about an epic trail. Bolingbroke-Kent captures the sights, sounds and colour of the legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail in all its surviving glory.
Kit Gillet, freelance journalist and videographer
Ants has pulled off not only a demanding and original adventure but a great read too. A Short Ride in the Jungle informs and entertains in just the right measures
Lois Pryce, motorcycle adventurer and author
A beautifully written tale teeming with descriptive gems and wickedly funny anecdotes, all delivered in an earthy, self-effacing style that has the words spilling off the page A travellers delight and classic-to-be!
Jason Lewis, author and the first person to circumnavigate the world by human power alone
A SHORT RIDE IN THE JUNGLE
Copyright Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent, 2014
Maps by Bee Hayes
All rights reserved.
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Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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'Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong.
We owe it to future generations to explain why.'
Robert S. McNamara, US Secretary of Defence 19611968

AUTHOR'S NOTE

In western cultures the Truong Son Mountains are known as the Annamites, but throughout this book I refer to them by their Vietnamese name, the Truong Son, meaning 'Long Mountain'. The Vietnamese called the Ho Chi Minh Trail the Truong Son Strategic Supply Route, hence to refer to them as Truong Son is more apt in this context.
In 1975 the southern city of Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City by the North Vietnamese victors. Today, in spite of this change, the city is still largely known as Saigon, except by some northerners, and for official purposes. I refer to it by its pre-1975 name, Saigon.
Although the war that took place in Southeast Asia in the sixties and seventies is generally called the Vietnam War, the broad term that refers to the war in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia is the Second Indochina War. This book is a journey through these three countries, hence I refer to the conflict as the Second Indochina War, as opposed to the Vietnam War. Often I just call it 'the War'.
American intelligence and Vietnamese military cartographers used a different numbering system for the Trail on maps of the time. For example, the main northsouth road through Laos was called 911 by the US and 128 by the North Vietnamese. Since I have been working from old North Vietnamese maps, I use their numbering system, as opposed to the US one.
There is some disagreement as to whether the Honda Cub is a motorcycle or a moped. It has an automatic clutch and is rather smaller than your average motorcycle, but on the other hand has three gears, no running board and bigger wheels than most mopeds. Most Cub fans will insist their steed is a motorcycle and within this book I refer to it variously as a motorcycle, moped, bike, Cub and C90.

THE (MOSTLY) MIGHTY PINK PANTHER
BRIEF PRONUNCIATION GUIDE n chay an chai the ay as in bye ao dai - photo 3

BRIEF PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

n chayan chai, the 'ay' as in 'bye'
ao daiow die
BualaphaBoolafar
Cm ThyCum Twee
ct tc'cat toc
co tuongco tung
Cu ChiKoo Chee
CuongKung, as in the 'u' sound in 'cook'
i idee dee
Mu GiaMoo Zaa (In northern Vietnam 'gi' is pronounced 'z'. A Saigonese would pronounce it as 'Moo Jeeya')
phofur
Phong NhaFong Nar
Tn KTan Kee
Truong SonTrung Son, the 'son' as in 'con'
Vo Nguyen GiapVo Nwin Zaap
xin chosin chow
xin lisin loy
CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 THE WORLDS DEADLIEST ROAD It was early March - photo 4

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 THE WORLDS DEADLIEST ROAD It was early March and a thick grey - photo 5
CHAPTER 1
THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST ROAD

It was early March and a thick grey pall hung over Hanoi. Standing on the first floor balcony of my hotel in the capital's Old Quarter, I hunched my shoulders against the chill morning air. Still on British time, I took a beer from the minibar, lit a cigarette and leant over the concrete balustrade. Below, a buzzing, beeping river of mopeds and taxis flowed down narrow Nguyen Van To Street. Women squatted on the pavement hacking the heads off fish, their hands glistening with silver scales. Others sawed at slabs of raw meat, trickles of crimson blood running into the gutter. On the balcony opposite, two yellow songbirds chirruped in an ornate wooden cage. And in every direction stained buildings leant on each other like a crowd of drunkards, clothed in an unkempt mass of tangled wires, crooked balconies, grimy air conditioning units and half-open shutters. The drab, colourless order of London couldn't have felt further away.
Excitement and anxiety about what lay ahead had kept sleep at bay for the entirety of the flight from England. Now in Hanoi, I was eager to get on with the task at hand. Sleep could wait. In a couple of days' time I would be loading my panniers and setting off down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. For the next seven weeks it would just be me and my two-wheeled partner, a twenty-five-year-old Honda C90. No back up, no mechanics - just the hum of my tiny 90-cc engine.
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