Ho Chi Minh highway landscape – Central Highland, Vietnam

This picture has been taken while I was riding my bike from Kon Tum to Hoi An crossing the Vietnamese Central Highlands. Although the weather was quite bad, the landscapes were absolutely stunning. Before being turn into a decent road the Ho Chi Minh Highway was called the Ho Chi Minh trail and was used by the Vietcongs to bring arms, ammunitions and logistics while fighting the North. To break that umbilical cord the US air force heavily bombed the trail. Until today there are places around the trail where vegetations did not grow back.