Day 56, 62km: (by Chris)

Last night we bought lots of eggs from a local shop for the days ahead and boiled them in the kettle in our room for our lunchtime sandwiches. The day was very pleasant; riding through cool air past rice terraces curving around the contours of the hills. The fields were yellow stubble of cut stems or vibrant green rice plants, some of which were being harvested by hand. It was even relatively quiet, with the sound of crickets, a few motorbikes and the occasional excited farmer yelling 'hello!' In english from the other side of the valley. For morning break we had real milk for the first time in 2 months which was an exquisite treat we found in Shaxi fresh from the local cows. We stopped early at 15:30 in an opportunistic small forest as google earth showed farmland for miles ahead. We were spotted scoping out the land by a farmer initially so cycled a little more but then Amy was seen struggling up a ridge into the trees at the next possible site. We just went deep into the spider infested woods and hoped they wouldn't come looking for us because it was a lovely flat grassy hill top.