Just a casual ride around the lake??! Sounds lovely. 60km later and a few emotional breakdowns along the way we finally make it home. We start the day with an all you can eat buffet breakfast of 10 yuan!!! Nuts! And then hire ourselves some mountain bikes. The lower part of the old city is closely flanked with Lake Erhai, named so for it's ear shape. The other side of the city has mountains that seem perpetually covered in cloud, but have a cable car that travels about half way up. So we head to the lake where the day before Andrew had checked out the situation of ferry times etc that ran from one side of the water body to the other. As tour leader of the day we head off on our trusty steeds
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