The Best Places To Ride Around The World

From winding mountain passes to wild, remote plains, here are some of the highlights of what planet Earth has to offer the travelling motorcyclist.

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There is a whole lot of world out there, waiting to be ridden and explored. Whether you’re looking for that perfect mountain pass, or a remote gravel trail, here are some of the best places around the globe that you can take a two-wheeled trip to.

1 FOR OTHER-WORLDLY SCENERY

There are so many places to choose from here, but for combining good riding with unreal landscapes, it’s hard to beat the Dong Van Karst plateau in northern Vietnam. Layers of unique pointy mountains stack themselves against the skyline, stretching off into the distance. The landscape there looks like a scene from the movie Avatar; if a mountain floated by 400 feet in the air, you wouldn’t be at all surprised. When you do reach a town, you’ll rarely see English written or spoken; everything is in Vietnamese. Getting by with pointing and sign language only adds to the feeling of being somewhere truly remote, truly alien. Winding through this sensory overload is a network of tight, twisting roads, tortured into challenging hairpins up and around the terrain. The free-spirited Vietnamese driving standards take some getting used to, but it’s worth dodging the occasional truck to ride in this incredible environment.

2 FOR INTERACTING WITH DIFFERENT CULTURES