vietnam day 4

Day 4 :

In the morning after breakfast, we renfilons our still wet shoes to take a track through villages and rice fields, sometimes fairly dense river arm being given the monsoon period.

We take a steep climb to pass in an adjacent valley. We meet our first leeches.

We lunch in an isolated village in this wild landscape. After this meal, we leave towards the peaks through dense bush climbs steeply, full of big stones floor camouflaged by a very humid vegetation makes this course very slippery. Our progress is slow down our guide tear down with his machete 2 meters of vegetation before us, he knows where the past is a former military knowing perfectly the jungle. I do a minor fall, just my slightly sore shoulder, but my calves under me spades me, I see a dozen leeches consumes me every calves. I struggle to get rid of and it will last as unfortunately we are in this dense and wet vegetation.

After reaching the top, the descent is as hard as the climb, the hyper shaky ground because of this requires constant rain sticks to control our balance. I break one, but I managed my descent without incident. The descent is complete, a river arms crossed and then we cross the beautiful rice fields of Ban Sao.

We arrive homestay just before nightfall, we have more than 2 hours longer than expected due to weather conditions or 8 am to 16 km and 555 vertical meters. The house of our guests is of full feet of clay on the ground, all around chickens and pigs wander and sometimes quarrel among themselves for food. The meal is excellent. Night always on boards suspended with a mattress 3 cm.