84 km. Total 3057 km
I continued on the wider gravel road leading towards NW. It was a very nice area, rice farming and nice Lao villages. I had had only some bananas and a can of cold Nescafé for breakfast. When I came upon a small shop I needed more food. The man understood no English and when I tried showing him I needed eating he brought me first a bundle of toothpicks and then a toothbrush. Finally I found bags of Mexican flavored chips. I ate four bags of them.
After some 30 km my road intersected with route 13 and I was on my way towards Vang Vieng.
At lunch stop I met a whole group of Americans cycling with a tour guide and a follow-up van carrying all luggage. They were obviously more or less on a race and had not seen any guest houses or such. Their guide knew a little more but even his info was not entirely correct. I pedalled on along mostly flat countryside.
There are obviously many sorts of cyclists here. There was an English university teacher who like me had two panniers and a handlebar bag, happy to ride abt 80 km a day. And there was a French guy who had been cycling on small roads for two months with only a mini backpack in a handlebar basket. And there were young guys intent on going all the from Vang Vieng to Vientiane in one day, and Japanese in a terrible hurry, etc.
At Hine Hoeup I moved on to a guest house I had stayed at last time I cycled here. The room and shower were fine. But the restaurant menu put me off with their offer of a soup made from "intestines of buffalo". Yach! I had a grilled chicken at a small stand by a parking lot where truck drivers stopped for food.
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