CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 333 km round trip from Ninh Bình - roughly 5 h 24 in the saddle. It goes by way of Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of, Kiep Bac Temple and back through Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The first view of Trang An catches people out. You step into a rowing boat, an old woman or man takes the oars, often with feet as well as hands, and the boat glides into a cave in a limestone cliff, comes out the other end into a hidden lagoon ringed by green peaks, and slides into another cave, and another, for a couple of hours. The Trang An Landscape Complex, in Ninh Bình province, is a maze of karst towers, flooded valleys, caves and rice fields, and it was listed by UNESCO in 2014 for both natural and cultural value.
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Trang An Landscape Complex is where the day begins. 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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Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of comes up about 103 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kiep Bac Temple.
Kiếp Bạc is the place where Vietnam remembers Trần Hưng Đạo, the thirteenth-century general who defeated the Mongols three times. In the 1280s, the armies of Kublai Khan's empire invaded Vietnam, and Trần Hưng Đạo, commanding the forces of the Trần dynasty, used guerrilla tactics, retreat and ambush to wear them down. The most famous victory came in 1288 on the Bạch Đằng river, when he planted iron-tipped stakes in the riverbed and lured the Mongol fleet onto them at low tide. He died in 1300, and the temple at Kiếp Bạc was built where he is said to have had his base.
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about 166 km into the recorded legs you reach Kiep Bac Temple. Next is back through Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of.
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back through Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of, late in the day. Next is Trang An Landscape Complex.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Trang An Landscape Complex write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Trang An Landscape Complex. That is the ride.
Trang An Landscape Complex → Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of → Kiep Bac Temple is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kiep Bac Temple → back through Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of → Trang An Landscape Complex is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.