CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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402 km from Neo to Neo, about 6 h 02 of riding. On the way it passes Yen Giang Stake-yard, Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of and back through Yen Giang Stake-yard. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Côn Sơn lies in the pine-covered hills of Chí Linh, north-east of Hanoi, on the border of Hải Dương province, and it carries two of the great names of Vietnamese history. In the thirteenth century the Trần dynasty beat back three Mongol invasions, and its monks and commanders left a trail of temples, of which Côn Sơn, Kiếp Bạc and the sacred mountain of Yên Tử are the best known. Trúc Lâm, the Vietnamese Zen school founded by King Trần Nhân Tông, who gave up his throne to become a monk, has one of its centres here.
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Con Son Pagoda is where the day begins. Next is Yen Giang Stake-yard.
Twice in Vietnamese history, the tide at the mouth of the Bạch Đằng river decided the fate of the country. In 938, Ngô Quyền defeated a Southern Han fleet by planting iron-tipped stakes in the riverbed, hidden at high tide, then luring the enemy ships upstream and waiting for the water to fall. In 1288, during the third Mongol invasion of Đại Việt, the general Trần Hưng Đạo used the same trick against the fleet of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty, trapping and destroying it. In the fields around Quảng Yên, archaeologists have found rows of those ancient wooden stakes, still standing in the mud, and the Yên Giang stake yard is one of the sites where you can see them preserved.
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Yen Giang Stake-yard comes up 99 km in. Next is Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of.
In 1010 the Vietnamese king Lý Thái Tổ moved his capital to the banks of the Red River and named it Thăng Long, Ascending Dragon, after he is said to have seen a dragon rising from the water. The city grew up around the royal citadel, and for most of the next eight centuries it was the political heart of Vietnam. The Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long, in the middle of modern Hanoi, preserves layers of this history, from the foundations of palaces excavated beneath the ground to buildings of the Nguyễn dynasty and the French colonial era. It was listed by UNESCO in 2010, the year Hanoi celebrated its thousandth anniversary.
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199 km in you reach Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of. Next is back through Yen Giang Stake-yard.
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back through Yen Giang Stake-yard, late in the day. Next is Con Son Pagoda.
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Back at Con Son Pagoda. That is the ride.
Con Son Pagoda → Yen Giang Stake-yard is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yen Giang Stake-yard → Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of is 133 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of → back through Yen Giang Stake-yard is 133 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Yen Giang Stake-yard → Con Son Pagoda is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.