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Day 2 of riding begins with a breakfast from 0630am and it was quite funny to see so many people eating baguette and jam just so they could put some fuel in the belly because nobody really fancied a curry or a dim sum type of item at that time of the morning, mainly because most people morning ablutions have been thrown into turmoil and there has been many a story told over the last two days about various men's digestive systems some of it in too much graphic detail which is wrong on so many levels, anyway I shall dwell on it no longer.
A quick checkout and we are off again, only a very short ride to start off with as we are visiting a temple this morning. The dress code for this is cover the knees, who would have thought that knees could be so offensive?? Anyway long shorts and a sarong later we were in and out of there in a flash.
So onward and upward we wind our way through rice field after rice field through very similar winding footpaths as the previous day whereby we are still greeted by excited children shouting out "hello,hello" continuously with their hands held out waiting for that return gesture from us, and it never ceases to be a boring thing to do.
We take a short stop to rehydrate and then push on until lunchtime whereby we have then completed around 50Km. We all reach for that ever welcoming ice bucket full of water, coke and 7up eager to get that well deserved sugar fix and then we settle down to a lunch of soup with meat and vegetables followed by rice, prawns more vegetables and bits of spare rib. Not much left on the table I can tell you.
Lunch over and then onto our final destination Can Tho some 35km away and the temperature is now around 41 degrees C so a tad hot. One thing that has surprised some of us is the amount of water we are going through, up to 6 litres in a day. Under normal circumstances if you drank 6 litres you would be on the toilet all day but it is draining out of every single part of your body and of course these are far from being normal circumstances. Total distance covered today, 85.5Km, very well done to everyone.
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