Rookie Rider 202 continued

So where were we?
Ah yes - the rest day.

• Choose alternative mode of transport - push push - and get lifted to the local market to find another pair of pants that won't chafe.
• Pay R49 for a soft pair of jeans
• Get assistance from two young students who want to practice their english
  
• Load up bikes and head out to Ambositra 91km away
• Ride into pumping headwind and 30 degree heat.
• Try not to get head ripped off shoulders by cross winds (where is my lightweight cycing helmet)
• Stop at roadside cafe for coke and pineapple slices along with dozens of taxis - a real roadside market with deep fried foods, pub, cafe but no shade
  
• Shift regularly in seat trying to compensate for large backpack.
• Get used to switchbacks on tar and practice gearing down and up for bends
• Arrive in Ambositra and scoff some lunch (Recommend vanilla crepe)

• Discover the town has no wireless so walkuphill  to internet cafe - Espace Tuky
• Catch push push home again but 150kg of two humans makes for interesting downhils with bare feet as brakes
• Feel bad at how much the guy sweated and huffed to get us along the flat

Dinner and prepare for dirt tomorrow.

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