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Published: February 29th 2008
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Check out the headgear! She was really nice....this was in Sialong(Jiulong) on the backroad from Tiger leaping gorge to Shangri-la 25 km 7.0km/hr 3:34:00
I had a rough night as I woke up around midnight wanting to get sick and/or have diahrrea! I got dressed to go outside but ended up fighting it most of the rest of the night as it was so cold outside-lol! I finally got a couple of hours sleep and then woke up early. It was a brisk -8 degres C still at 7a.m! I noticed that I was having strong egg-tasting burps and from experience realized that I had giardia(traveller's diahrrea usually from bad water or from poor hygiene in restaurants etc). Luckily I had medication to treat it but it can take a week until you feel 100 percent. Anyway, we got packed up and began to cont. our climb but we were almost out of water so we stopped at a stream to filter some. Well, didn't I drop the whole filter kit bag about 5ft. down into rushing,cold mountain water that was running under the road in a small concrete box culvert! The water was moving fast but the bag seemed to be staying put for now so I had to move fast and much to G's surprise(she had gone to
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We ran into the odd snowy section! the other side of the road to try and intercept it if it got there) I had stripped down to only spandex bike shorts to retrieve it! As much as I tried there was no way to not go right in with my feet and also get hit by a small sort of waterfall to get it----COLD!! Some locals drove by after the fact and I now had a shirt on but was still in bare feet on the road and in spandex bike shorts-they must have thought we were nuts! For some reason I can see my buddy Ewen having an extra good chuckle over this story(it wasn't that funny you dick!)! Anyway, we thought it prudent that G take over the water-filtering duties-actually maybe she insisted, my memory of the event is a little fuzzy. I decided that the best way to dry my shorts was to just leave them on and not wear the pants and overshorts that I normally have over them. This worked out ok-luckily we were climbing and the sun came out. This day turned out to be super hard for both of us as I was feeling rough and G was getting sick too plus had never really fully ditched her cold either-not to mention the constant climbing and altitudes of up to 3500m!! We hit a town which in our info. was called Sialong (but we think is maybe also called Jiulong on other maps) and decided not to go any further. We met a nice lady who had a little store and restaurant who fed us really well and offered us a room. This was a really cute little town in a nice little sheltered valley! After falling asleep for a while on her sort of balcony and eating a little we went for a little walk around town and started feeling a little better. Some of the local women wear this really elaborate head-gear-it's almost like a kite attached to the back of their heads! People were very friendly and pretty surprised to have visitors let alone on bikes! We went to bed pretty early and I fell asleep looking at the leg of meat with hoof still attached hanging on the wall!
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