KOTO Cycle

The KOTO cycle challenge was a great day of cycling, eating, meeting people and discovering some slightly more rural areas of Vietnam.

After a few months of fairly minimal exercise 80km was a very worthy challenge at 8 am on a Saturday morning. Spurred on by some great food and the prospect of breathing some clean country air we departed for Bavi to be greeted by a saturady morning peak hour.

Once we reached edge of Hanoi things definitely looked up as we were able to concentrate on more than where the next motorbike or truck was likely to be attempting an ambush of our position on the raod.

We made our way along dirt roads first through market gardens and then rice fields and smaller villages. We stopped at a pagoda for morning tea and to rest the backside and then continued on to Bavi.

The group was constantly greeted by smiling faces and children shouting 'Hello' with replies from the group of 'Chau ca'c em'

Despite some exhaustion & a sore buts, this was a great time how can you not love being greeted all day by smiles like these :)

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