The green North of Viet Nam

The green North of Viet Nam

The north offers spectacular scenery, often characterized by its paddy fields carpeting the rolling slopes of the mountains. I stayed the first night in Dien Bien near the border and spent the next day traveling north to Sa Pa. August is one of the very rainy months in the monsoon season and it came to no surprise that heavy rainfalls left its marks on the road.

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