Hellraising in the HIGHLANDS!
This ride was a lot more demanding than the previous year along the coast from Ho-Chi-Minh City to Hanoi, though that ride also had its share of white-knuckle days! The ride started out heading west from Hanoi toward the Laos border and then wrapped up around the Chinese border. We carved our way through winding mountain roads, valleys with rice terraces etched in the side of them, and jungled limestone cliffs that made for some of the best riding Vietnam has to offer. You never know what the road conditions are going to be like and it seemed every road in the north was under construction. Riding on what appeared to be 500km-plus of compact dirt and crushed rock roads during this trip, I can see why North Vietnam is a must-do for
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