I'm pushing 50, my son is pushing 20yo.

I'd like to initiate a father son holiday for a couple of weeks that we can share together, before we inevitably grow apart.

I am thinking about a motorcycle holiday through Vietnam with him next year. I know we would both love that.

I'm sure some of you wiser old blokes can shed some light on some other male bonding holiday ideas that you've done, or would like to do, with your son/s before they make their own lives.

ask him mate - involve him in that > probbly make it even better
Good luck hope it rolls well for you both Olly

FlySurfer said...

adolf said...


I am thinking about a motorcycle holiday through Vietnam with him next year. I know we would both love that.

Vietnam is pretty busy, and I don't think it's very scenic... at least the south isn't.

How about Ayahuasca in the jungle... I spent 5 days, and I'm never forgetting them.
A lot of cultures use certain substances on late teens to "wake" them up... you know manhood rituals.

Seriously: indianmotorcycletours.com/
Himalayas on a Royal Enfield is my next tour.
I did a motorcycle tour around Peru in 2010... was good, but would have been better with more people, cos it was just 2 of us.

Diving Wolf Is. (Galapagos) was amazing.

in land south vietnam is nice but the north is absolutely fabulous. For motor biking I would say you have to hit Sapa a town in the mountains up north. I would recommend biking the north and go into Laos or China through the mountains.

Some tips for Vietnam:

- Danang is a place in the mountains in the south.
-Go to the cu chi tunnels. The tunnels the vietnamese dug under the battlefields to live in and to fight out of, against the Americans
- Go to mui ne for some kiting of windsurfing.
- Go to Na trang if you just want to laze on the beach for a bit in a pretty westernized city.
- Go to Hue. An old city with in the center the so called citadel.
- Hoi an is a beautiful old town which is completely world heritage because of its old colonial buildings.
- Hanoi is an old large city where you can see the 'real vietnam'
- Do a Halong bay cruise.
- Go to sapa, where all the hilltribes come together.

However for more bonding ideas:

- Wintersport in japan or NZ
- Do a diving course together.
- Hike to machu pichu or some other great hike.

Lot's of options mate. enjoy!

Im heading over to Europe and doing a motorbike ride with my old man from Germany through to Spain this June.

Checking out Aussie war cemeteries and Normandy.

He's over there at the moment started from Turkey and 4 days ago he was in Bulgaria bribing his way into Serbia

Not bad for a 62 year old

Going to be either bonding or separating...

fruit bowl of coke, penthouse full of hot nasty pros'

Mark _australia said...

Bonding - do the Kokoda Track

+ 1, a totally awesome experience. No bullsh1t, bluff or bravado on the track, after a couple of days all that is stripped away. I had an awesome experience with mates up there, and it's been long enough now we have forgotten the pain and there is talk of going again.

adolf said...

I'm pushing 50, my son is pushing 20yo.

I'd like to initiate a father son holiday for a couple of weeks that we can share together, before we inevitably grow apart.

I am thinking about a motorcycle holiday through Vietnam with him next year. I know we would both love that.

I'm sure some of you wiser old blokes can shed some light on some other male bonding holiday ideas that you've done, or would like to do, with your son/s before they make their own lives.

pattaya beach for some 'me love you long time' hooker holiday

Backpacking around Bolivia

If son a kiter head for US for NABX which is held in the desert south of LAS Vegas

kite nutters from all over the globe.

Cheap beer in Casinos

nebbian said...

I spent a great week with my Dad as we walked the Overland track in Tassie...

Whatever you decide to do, do it before it's too late.

This is the one Adolf you mention some time back you wanted to hit up Tassie.

Surfers? Indo boat trip.

choco said...

Just tell him you "love him" worth more than any trip

and a hell of a lot cheaper too

adolf said...
I want an excuse for another holiday. It would be much more fun just going with him, rather than the doing the whole family thing.

If it was all up to me - I'd go somewhere, far away from the hoi polloi, with a few mates. I'd kill stuff, drink beer, relax and contemplate.

I don't want no f'ckn environmental, pinko, patriotic, hard work holiday complete with wifi so I can update my current location on foursquare, change my profile pic on facebook or announce that the guy next to me is eating a biscuit on twitter.

Besides, doing the father son thing I can explain it away as money well spent - ie: I'm bonding with my son, so what if it costs $8K for the week.

I'm sure he'd enjoy it too. I don't feel the need to tell him I love him - if he is a man, he would know that by now.

WTF man, so you're asking us for ideas and you're not going to create a blog, with holiday snaps and a google earth tracker, you un-social ba$tard

When I was in the Amazon jungle getting off and in to the planet... there was no running water, no electricity, no real food, no nothing, except Ayahuasca and 1 potato + 1 boiled egg a day, weird creature noises, and my thoughts.

My laptop ran out of juice after 2 movies, and my Cowon flac player lasted a while longer.

I had to wash in a brownish dry stream with I don't know what at the bottom and crap in an oil drum.
My hut had every type of insect you could image.
I didn't get bit by anything and I didn't take any malaria tabs.

I don't know how many kgs I lost but my clothes were lose when I left... I felt really great, but getting back to the city (Iquitos) was trippy, noisy, polluted and pretty unpleasant... and I was still kind of in shock (PTSD) from the DMT+Monoamine oxidase inhibitor (ayahuasca).

If you think you're man enough, you can try catching the boat from Pucallpa to Iquitos.
Plenty o'time to drink beer
This is no eco tour or hard slug... if you're even harder you can go further in to the Amazon towards Brazil.
And if you're a REAL hard man... you can swim it!

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