It didn’t take long for passionate dreamer and adventure-lover Karin Müller to realize that she liked wandering around an uncharted land with a backpack much more than sitting in a dusty office. And if the decision is made, you need to act. And a very young, very self-confident, but at the same time truly brave American woman sets off on an extreme journey through Vietnam. In seven months, she will have to cross the country four times, traveling from the Mekong Delta to the Chinese border, walk, drive and swim 6,400 miles on a bicycle. , motorcycle, train, bus, truck, buffalo, horse, motor boat, plane, bamboo canoe and on your own two feet. And also learn 1800 Vietnamese words, wait 42 hours for rides, repair a motorcycle 52 times, find out for yourself what small but very unpleasant companions in everyday life are like in the form of mosquitoes, bedbugs, spiders, ants, bees, ticks, fleas and centipedes. Karin Müller also will have to change 134 hotels, survive 14 arrests and one deportation outside the country, meet four cubs of leopards, one cub gibbon and one very unfriendly eagle, buy 23 uncut rubies, eat 429 bowls of soup, 8 pounds of seaweed and drink countless cups of green tea , catch a cold five times, run into a bamboo stick, suffer from giardiasis and scurvy and write a wonderful book about it, which we bring to your attention