What started out as a twenty minute leisurely bike ride this morning at 7:00 ended up being a two hour endurance test (mental endurance, not physical). Plus, we didn't take any water for the "short" ride and it was already 26C with high humidity in the early morning.
Yup....we got lost!
We saw what we had set out to see and on the way home decided to ride through the villages behind our hotel. The biggest mistake we made was assuming that each village would be unique in appearance. How wrong we were!
When you are riding down some narrow lane in village number one, it looks just like a narrow lane in village number two. The dogs are the same, the chickens look like they are laying the same eggs and the houses are all similar in appearance.
The lanes twist and turn repeatedly and before long we didn't have a clue as to which direction we came from nor which direction we should go in.
Yesterday we had the name of the hotel written in Chinese and Fred just happen to have that precious sheet of paper in his pocket. Even so, we had to ask five or six different people which way to go [most couldn't read the note]. We never did get a specific location, just the general direction of the hotel.
We did get to see some awesome sights while on this latest adventure. That, and sore butts! Old Chinese bike seats just don't cut it.
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