2/12 Pu Luong

Today started with a hour long boat ride across the reservoir to our next starting point. We did another 68K. The steep climbs continued today just not as many as yesterday. We did travel through some nice backroads. The rice paddy field below with the mountains behind it was spectacular.

Boat ride across the reservoir to start our ride.
This was the most beautiful area of the trip so far.

We took a quick stop to see a chopstick factory where they make them out of bamboo. The amount of manual labor used, the incredible speed and the mind numbing monotony was unbelievable.

Market stop. “Hello”.
Chop stick “factory”. Massive manual labor at breakneck speed.

The day ended with another insanely long steep climb.

That’s Graham from Australia ahead of me. He’s 70 years old and a beast on his bike!
On your left….

Our day ended at the Pu Luong retreat where we enjoyed a nice dinner and rewarded ourselves with many glasses of wine.

We all stayed in a common room again with matresses on the floor at the Pu Luong retreat.

Fun fact: every where we ride we are greeted with little kids smiling at us from the side of the road or from inside their house and saying “hello”. If I was to count, I would say this has happened about 600 times already…….and we are still not tired of it.

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