Motorbiking in the Hills

Jamin and I took a couple hours one evening to go for a motorbike ride out into the hills. I have been out a couple times with Holly for short rides but never that far out. It was great fun to get out into some unknown territory and through a number of small villages exploring the countryside.  The trail started out on nice paved roads, then to brick roads and finally to simple dirt trails before back to brick and eventually we met up with pavement again. We did about an 80 km loop by heading North toward Chakaria then heading into the hills toward Lama, starting south through the hills and eventually going Southwest until we hit the highway in the next major city south of the hospital. The scenery out in the hills is incredible with the views from the hills looking down on the rice paddies in the valleys, driving through the rubber tree plantations, meeting the locals going about their everyday business along the sides of the roads, etc.

Jon

We started out on paved highways. Watch out for oncoming traffic!

Jamin on the Honda XL in the hills

Rice paddies in the hill valleys

Jon taking a quick break to enjoy the scenery

Tobacco plantations in the valleys

Tobacco Plantations (cash crop)

Rice paddies

Brick Roads

 

Rubber Tree Plantation in the hills

Collecting rubber sap by making notches in the tree and collecting the sap in cups (much like maple syrup)

The rubber sap is dried out in trays then hung out for final drying

Kids chasing after us on the motorbikes