We had quite good weather for the trip. Several days were cloudy and cooler, a couple of very hot sunny days, and a day with a strong thunder shower that we waited out in a cafe. The landscape is stunning. Terraced hillsides, sharp, tooth shaped mountains. Just like Halong bay, but on land. And villages all along the way, people in traditional dress walking along the road, school children in their red sashes riding bicycles shouting 'hello' as we rode by. We even saw people harvesting rice fields in the traditional way, separating the grain by hitting the stalks against a board.
We had the full range of road conditions - from dirt roads under construction to smooth 2-lane highways. Long steep winding ascents and descents. The construction was particularly brutal: huge rocks and holes to weave around, very dusty when try, and very slippery when muddy. I can definitely say I've been dirt biking.
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