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84km, 28 to 33deg, fine with scattered cloud. After clearing the busy city of Bago we got onto a much quieter road, a handmade rough jobie. Although our bottoms got a workout we didn't mind as it was really interesting ride. The countryside was wet and low and a combination of rice paddies and fish farms, mostly paddies. It seemed to go on forever, as it turned out it was about 100km before we reached the other side. Accompanying the paddy fields and ponds were chicken and duck farms built over the top of the fish ponds. No waste involved there. That's one more reason I don't eat fish from Asian fish farms if I can help it. It was harvesting season for the rice so lots of trucks of all description hauling bags of rice to the depots and beyond. It looked like a massive crop, harvested by both hand and machine. There were also 100s of temporary shelters alongside the road made out of bamboo poles and tarps. Our local guide that they were villages displaced by the recent floods. The side of the road looked an awful place to live with stagnant water, mud and rubbish lying around everywhere. At the 84km mark we called it a day, and a tour, packed our bikes on the truck and headed for our motel. The transfer took about 2 hours through very heavy traffic and we understood why we couldn't ride. The Hotel, Bahisi, is situated in the middle of a residential and business area that looks fairly affluent or extremely poor, depending on the building you're looking at. A lot of the apartment blocks look like something out of Communist Eastern Europe, grey and not very well maintained. Our restaurant for dinner was an upmarket place 500m up the road. Nice food but the waiter staff didn't seem too switched on. Maybe still getting used to our quirky ways. Tomorrow we will explore a bit of Yangon.
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