Saturday 5th March, 2011
Distance: 81km (Total: 10,882)
It’s just so hot and humid during the day it’s essential to get up early to avoid the worst of it. We retraced our route back inland to the number 4 and cycled through Kapoe. Today was more of the same great road winding through the hilly jungle with a big shoulder and hardly any traffic.
Lots of mosques in this area.
We stopped at a petrol station for our daily ice cream when an old guy on a moped pulled up and came to talk to us. He was an American living in Thailand and very excited about our “totally awesome bicycle adventure”. ”Man, this is the way to do it!” He then subjected us to a 15 minute rant about “dumbass, no imagination backpackers doing the guidebook 1-10 best things to see in Thailand”. ”Man when I came here first we didn’t have a guidebook, we just went off exploring by ourselves.” He didn’t look like shutting up so we made excuses, bought a big bag of fruit and set off again.
We arrived in Khuraburi by lunch time and ate what’s now becoming our favourite of basil leaf pork and rice. We found some newly built bungalows run by a nice guy and had a relaxing afternoon sweating from doing nothing. Another great day cycling in Thailand. We’re really loving it here it’s just a great country to cycle in and travel through in general; the people are lovely, the food is fantastic, accommodation is easy to find and nice and cheap.
Iced tea in a plastic bag.
The best place to get dinner is takeaway from the local night market as most of the locals seem to do. So we had a huge papaya salad, 1/2 a roast chicken with sticky rice and some delicious little sweet pancake balls.
