Sapa Rice Terraces

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So much of the area surrounding Sapa is covered with rice terraces that look like works of art. Its amazing to bike around this landscape and I was perpetually blown away. Cruising along the mountain roads, you can look down on little villages of the Hmong, Red Dao and Tay people. I detoured to several of them and it was like stepping back in time. In one Dao village I saw a little boy sleeping on the back of a water buffalo.


I rode up to the Silver Waterall and through the highest mountain pass in Vietnam. Riding through the pass, the freezing wind blows whips strong and the mist was so dense I couldn't see 10ft. in front of me. That is a frightening and amazing experience; its like being on another planet.


This is the most beautiful place I have ever seen.

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