Surfing China's River Wave - The "Silver Dragon"

I have to do this!! On my travels I never did make it to china. close, I got to about 40 miles south of the border in Laos but never actually into china. The Reason I never went through was I starting to get antsy for my Indo trip to Sumatra and Nias.  I was in a rush to get back down there to where there was some surf. This was  after previously failed attempt to find waves in Vietnam. I went in search of waves there to do the whole" Apocalypse now" (obviously without the Vietnam war Helicopters with music blaring or bombs dropping) corny I know but I have always wanted to surf Vietnam ever since I was a wee grom amazing place but I never found too much to surf. However if I had known there was this Just north of us well now that would have been a different story and now I want to go back this looks like insane fun! 

The wave comes in a very rapid pace with the incoming tide. We time the wave coming toward us, launch the PWCs, head upriver a few miles, then chase it and ride it until it dies. Different parts of the river make for the wave to increase and decrease in size and the way the river is shaped affects it. To put it in perspective, it takes almost 30 minutes from our launching point to get to the part of the wave we are allowed to surf due to restrictions and permits.

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