Day 2 – Tra Menh to Can Tor.

The 90k day.

Brilliant sunshine greeted us hen e aoke and it as H O T.

Straight on the bikes at 7.30 and e kept on pedalling until 6.30. What an amazing day.

Again more of the local Mekong Vilages. Once again we had to work though the bridges and winding roads. Loads of concentration required for this as before, only this time was made a little harder as later in the day the men who had been celebrating the New Year have to return home to their wives. Drunk does not cover it! Rice wine is v potent, adn these men had been drinking for hours. It was ropey enough when the scooters etc were flying past us sober...but with drink drivers... good lord!
Nerves were slighlty higher as this had been a v long day. First of all a pile up had been caused by a nervey cyclist stopping suddenly at the sight of a scooter coming towards her. The guys behind her whad no indication that she was stopping, hit her bike, went over hand bars and came to a gentle stop with the assistance of his chin. A slice of the knee, elbow and wrist and after some patching up we were on our way again. During the time we were waiting for the first aid to be carried nout wer did see a 2 other accidents, this time it was scooters coming off the paths! Great. (although it was good to see that the locals struggled too and it wasnt just us novices!)