70, 91km: by Amy

We set off in the rain. The hotel owner was asleep on a bed in reception so we just left the key on the desk. It rained and rained all morning as we cycled through a protected area of jungle. We tried to find a short cut to avoid a section on the main road but the roads didn't correspond to our maps which confused the locals and after being pointed back and fore for a while we resigned ourselves to an extra 10km. We had lunch under a pagoda in a park in Mengla town which was pretty but strewn with rubbish. For the afternoon the sun came out and after a short section on busy duel carriageway we branched off onto the old road which was deserted because the faster duel carriageway was toll free. We arrived at the last town before the border and treated ourselves to an posh hotel for £8 and so much egg tomato and rice we could barely walk back to said hotel.