Some of the steepest ascents and descents I have ever encountered upon two wheels. Brand new jungle roads cutting through isolated villages in what was recently a 'special' military zone of Laos. This was the Team Dai Challenge 2012 - we raised almost $16,000 for Friends International, a group that teaches skills to street kids here in Vientiane.
We saw intense beauty - ecotones from the foggy highlands of low bushes and grasses to moist dense teeming jungle to lowland paddy rice fields, terraced and spotted with water buffalo astray. Also incomprehensible destruction - treetops poking out of reservoirs created by a new dam, mountaintops cleared by copper mines. This is the reality of Laos.
wow wee, thats a crazy ride. cool beans kyle
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