Daily Blog: Display

We started the day again with another early start, with breakfast at 6.30am.  We set off from the hotel through the streets of Hue, weaving our way through the busy traffic.

After several km’s, we were thankful to turn down a quiet backroad.  We rode past several villages, with many wide eyed stares as we went past, followed by shrieks, and then little kids chasing after us!  The backroad took us through many rice fields.  Curiously, many of these fields had large burial plots and memorials rising out of them, and doubled up as a cemetery. 

The roads were bumpy, but for most riders, the large Coker wheels smoothed out the bumps.  It wasn’t long before we needed a break however, as the flat terrain meant that saddle pain was particularly problematic.  We stopped every 20km, with the support vehicle setting up food and refueling stops.  At each rest stop, locals would come out and check out our unicycles.

After 60km of flat riding, we finally get to the hilly section.  Lunch was at a hilltop restaurant with stunning views of the lower plains.  The food was quickly devoured by twenty six hungry unicyclists, before they set off on the final 20km stretch to our hotel. 

This final stretch was probably the craziest.  Traffic was heavy and had little respect for little things on the side of the road.  Trucks with airhorns blasted out for supremacy in along the highway.  He who has the biggest horn, usually has the biggest truck…get out of the way!!!  We kept on the edge of the road as much as we could.

We arrived at the Lang Co beach resort, tired, sticky and glad to have finished our first real ride.  We were greeted with a much needed cold tea and wet teatowel.  It was a beautiful resort, right next to the beach.  It wasn’t long before we all ran into the water to cool down.  Several of our riders have their aches and pains massaged away by the local women on the beach (they charge $5/halfhr).

Dinner was another multiple course affair, and we were all well fed by the time we collapse into bed that night.