Thursday, 17 October 2013

Day 57, 105km: (by Amy)

Our perfect ridge campsite was a bit of a mission to get down from. Chris walked through a web by accident and a massive yellow spider landed on his face. The road ran through the farmland downstream.
Having bought provisions from a fantastic market in the town of Yangbi we looked for somewhere to sit and eat. In the end the only place off the road we could find was an empty driving school test track. We sat on the examiners bench and ate our picnic watching the learner drivers practice on the tarmac course down the hill. 
After lunch we turned onto a hideous main road which as well as being unexpectedly steep uphill was busy with trucks keen to avoid the freeway toll and road works. After arriving in New Dali we had to travel 15km back north to Ancient Dali (the nice bit). I ran out of energy on the way and had to eat a packet of Oreos to re-fuel. We checked into the Jade Emu hostel which is awesome and had free DVD rental and players in the room. After a massive scran-out in the restaurant we watched a DVD and BBC news for the first time since leaving the UK.

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