Set off at 9 am for a 60 km ride. First 11 kms were back the way we came so the downhill ride into town that we enjoyed became an 11 km uphill climb instead. We gathered for a quick rest at the junction before starting a 5 km climb which Kim said was the steepest of our trip. It turned out not as bad as we expected, I think because we are now at a lower altitude than the first two days plus we are now aclimatised to the altitude so it was hard but not as exhausting as Day 6. The rest of the journey was a very pleasant ride through rural Yunnan passing small villages, vegetable gardens, terraced fields and local markets. We stopped at a lunch spot which Kim saw as she was riding past which once again looked like someone's house.
Todays's ride was almost like cycling through the past as I imagined that none of these scenes we witnessed today has really changed much at all over the years. We arrived in Jian Chuan early at 2.30pm which gave us a chance to have a look around at the local market which was mainly food such as spices, dried food and all sorts of things I didn't even recognise. After dinner I returned to the internet cafe to back up my photos and catch up on the blog.
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