Andrew was back in the saddle demonstrating some power cycling chasing the sprinters while Jacquie was just wishing the trip was over !
Our first climb took us on an off road surface with rock quarrying seemingly happening on every corner with the very real chance of rocks being loaded into trucks bouncing out and taking out an unwary cyclist !
Our 2nd climb was a beauty on mainly good surfaces providing stunning views of the Limestone Karst hills which were everywhere - the descent following was incredibly spectacular !
Professor Harris at one corner observing a nearby lake made a Nat Geo discovery sitting under the noses of the Chinese apparently for millennia - with some modesty he named the moving large lake water masses the "Harro Invictus" - (pretentious said Henley), which turned out to be massses of shoal fish which had congregated in packs !
With temperatures a little shy of the surface of the sun (accurate according to Marysia) we started to wilt and fell into Xingping taking lunch and then ferrying our bikes and equipment across the river in a boat held together by super glue !.
At our hotel we were finally able to relax and replaced some of the litres of sweat we'd lost !
Taking a late afternoon walk we took in some incredible sights of the Limestone Karsts on the Li River with the sun setting !
We are nearly done and dusted and only 50 kms from our destination at Yangshou !
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