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Yesterday evening we already figured it had been better to add an extra 30km to the 65km ride to spend the night in Muangphin or even add 40km & spend the night in Xethamouak. From Khe san it is basically downhill all the time until Xethamouak so it would have been an easy 90 or 100km ride...especially making the ride(s) until Savannakhet a bit more balanced. Hell, you can't get everything right, can you?
So today the initial plan was a lazy 30km to Phin or 40km to Xethamouak. All downhill so once there we quickly decided to keep going and hoping to find a guesthouse when we had about 80km orso. Road levels out, but keeps a really little decline almost all the time making it real easy to keep good speed. Take care, this probably slows you down seriously when ridden from Savannakhet to Vietnam! At around 85, 95 & 100 we passed some new looking guesthouses but since we felt strong and had the road in our benefit decided to keep going since we knew there was a guesthouse in Dongkilo (125km). Once there the room & GH restaurant was "expensive" (70.000kip & 30.000kip) so back on the bike...we'll find something in the next town (Donghe(n))...we do, but it's not really nice...keep on biking...:-)...passed maybe 1 or 2 other GH but all in the middle of nowhere & now we have a mission!
Time to shatter the previous day-record of 133km! We target Seno. (thinking it is at 150km based on our map & some roadside sign) Counter then hits 150...no Seno...mmmm, couple km's later we get a new roadside marker...it's gonna be 166km! This certainly shatters the 133 mark ;-). Bottomline, WE ROCK!
Tired & satisfied we check into a GH. Shower, moisturize (a sizzling hot sun all day long) & a bit of rest before getting food. Today was a hard, but do-able, ride. I would not try this in the opposite direction, you'll be battling a constant 0,5-1% incline :-)
Tomorrow leaves us with an easy 30km stroll into Savannakhet (hitting the 4000km mark) where we set up camp for probably 2 days.
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Yesterday evening we already figured it had been better to add an extra 30km to the 65km ride to spend the night in Muangphin or even add 40km & spend the night in Xethamouak. From Khe san it is basically downhill all the time until Xethamouak so it would have been an easy 90 or 100km ride...especially making the ride(s) until Savannakhet a bit more balanced. Hell, you can't get everything right, can you?So today the initial plan was a lazy 30km to Phin or 40km to Xethamouak. All downhill so once there we quickly decided to keep going and hoping to find a guesthouse when we had about 80km orso. Road levels out, but keeps a really little decline almost all the time making it real easy to keep good speed. Take care, this probably slows you down seriously when ridden from Savannakhet to Vietnam! At around 85, 95 & 100 we passed some new looking guesthouses but since we felt strong and had the road in our benefit decided to keep going since we knew there was a guesthouse in Dongkilo (125km). Once there the room & GH restaurant was "expensive" (70.000kip & 30.000kip) so back on the bike...we'll find something in the next town (Donghe(n))...we do, but it's not really nice...keep on biking...:-)...passed maybe 1 or 2 other GH but all in the middle of nowhere & now we have a mission!
Time to shatter the previous day-record of 133km! We target Seno. (thinking it is at 150km based on our map & some roadside sign) Counter then hits 150...no Seno...mmmm, couple km's later we get a new roadside marker...it's gonna be 166km! This certainly shatters the 133 mark ;-). Bottomline, WE ROCK!
Tired & satisfied we check into a GH. Shower, moisturize (a sizzling hot sun all day long) & a bit of rest before getting food. Today was a hard, but do-able, ride. I would not try this in the opposite direction, you'll be battling a constant 0,5-1% incline :-)
Tomorrow leaves us with an easy 30km stroll into Savannakhet (hitting the 4000km mark) where we set up camp for probably 2 days.
hallo Ardan, dat is een kluifje naar je bek he!
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