Cody and I got up at 6:30am one day, jumped on a moped, and headed for the hills in search of Confluence 12N and 108E. Check out
www.confluence.org for more info.
It took us about 5 hours to ride 110 km's. Along the way, we met some coffee growers. At 3000 feet above sea level, it was quite cool in the shade, but it was perfect for harvesting and drying beans.
The image above depicts coffee beans at varying stages of being sun dried.
Almost every house, like the one above, had beans sun drying in the front yard.
Cody really doesn't like his picture being taken. We got back to the beach after riding through the jungle for 8 hours. We didn't make the confluence. It was still 60km's from the furthest point we got to. That might not sound very far, but at an average speed of 30km's an hour (fast for Vietnam), we would have added another 4 hours to our 8 hours already vested, bringing us back in the dark (and that would have been too much of an adventure, even for me).
It took us about 5 hours to ride 110 km's. Along the way, we met some coffee growers. At 3000 feet above sea level, it was quite cool in the shade, but it was perfect for harvesting and drying beans.
The image above depicts coffee beans at varying stages of being sun dried.
Almost every house, like the one above, had beans sun drying in the front yard.
Cody really doesn't like his picture being taken. We got back to the beach after riding through the jungle for 8 hours. We didn't make the confluence. It was still 60km's from the furthest point we got to. That might not sound very far, but at an average speed of 30km's an hour (fast for Vietnam), we would have added another 4 hours to our 8 hours already vested, bringing us back in the dark (and that would have been too much of an adventure, even for me). 
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Hey Dave,
It looks like someone else has a blog entry (in Vietnamese) on the 12N, 108E confluence, which I found by searching Google for "12N, 108E".
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