CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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493 km from Sa Pa to Sa Pa, about 6 h 24 of riding. On the way it passes Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Ter and back through Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Ter. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Vietnam into China - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Sa Pa sits at about 1,500 meters in the Hoang Lien Son mountains of northwest Vietnam, and the mist that drifts in over its terraced valleys is half of its character. The French established a hill station here in the early twentieth century, building villas where colonial officials could escape the heat of the lowlands, and some of those stone buildings survive. Today it is a bustling market town for the Hmong, Red Dao, Tay and other mountain peoples, whose embroidered clothing, indigo-dyed cloth and silver jewelry make the Saturday market one of the most colorful in the country.
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Sapa is where the day begins. Next is Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Ter.
In the southern Yunnan prefecture of Honghe, on the slopes of the Ailao Mountains above the Red River, the Hani people have spent more than a thousand years carving rice paddies into the hillsides. The terraces climb from the valley floor at a few hundred meters to over a thousand, in layers so fine that from above they look like contour lines drawn on the land. UNESCO inscribed the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces as a Cultural Landscape in 2013, recognizing not just the beauty of the fields but the system that feeds them.
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Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Ter comes up 93 km in.
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186 km in you reach Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Ter. Next is back through Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Ter.
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back through Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Ter, late in the day. Next is Sapa.
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Back at Sapa. That is the ride.
Sapa → Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Ter is 186 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Ter → Sapa is 186 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.