Olympus Oldies Asian Highlights 2023

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 A rather quickly put together slideshow of the wonderful trips a clutch of Olympus (UK) old boys have been on this month, November 2023.

A twist and go bike ride, Chiang Mai to Pattaya followed by a flight to the MotoGP in Sepang and on to Vietnam where we just about manages to get one tour of the DMZ done before the heavens really really opened and flooded the area cutting the city of Hue off.

Fortunately we did get back to Danang for a night before jetting back.

If that wasn't enough we hopped onto the twist and go bikes again and did a bit of a variant of the Mae Hong Son loop.

For info, most if not all of my snaps were taken on my phone, a Samsung S22 Ultra.

One of our bunch, Chris Jones, had brought a real camera, a genuine Olympus digital SLR👍 with him with a big (ish) zoom.

I have included 3 of his bike shots in the slideshow.

Much more to come. 

Cheers.

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