PART 2 -Phongsaly - heading south

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PART 2 -Phongsaly - heading south

After breakfast I headed ENE on the dirt road to the villiage of Hat Sa
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The dirt trail was hard packed sand and clay
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Lovely traditional villiage on the Nam Ou river
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Local ladies
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The Nam Ou river
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Looks like they hoarded the sand so that in rainy season they had sand for construction when the river was high
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The road to Hat Sa
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When you backtrack west of Hat Sa about 1/2km there is a right turn north, this leads about 20km to a Laos Military camp just south of a dam. I had some problems with buffalo's on the way up there
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Then you get to the Military camp which is the end of the road
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Arch over the entrance to the Military camp
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Part of the Military camp down to the right (ESE) of the road
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The bridge across the Nam Ou to the base
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On the way back dropped the bike while stopping to take photo's
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About 5km south of Phongsaly at the Gas/ petrol station, take a left onto the dirt road at the 400 year old tea trees sign
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It opens up some interesting dirt trails that go all the way to the Vietnam border. The first part of the trail is rutted, might be nasty in wet season (Phongsaly in the distance)
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More ruts
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I went 40km down this dirt road and it led to villiage after village with tea plantations. It went on further with the same as far as I could see
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One more tea plantation village in the distance
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A lady from the tea plantation district
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A traditional Akha lady with baby along the way
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Once I showed her the photo she then posed for another
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Doing the laundry in the hills
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They looked a little concerned about the big orange bike
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Everywhere you look the Laos village people are collecting firewood for cooking
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Drying the tea
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Link to part 3

http://www.rideasia.net/motorcycle-forum/laos-ride-reports/241-part-3-phongsaly-heading-south.html
 
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