"What only 50km?" - easy, and it pretty much was. Same old, same old scenery. More of that Palm Oil monoculture. The town of Kuala Selangor was a bit confusing, but we found out later there was a new town and an old town. We ended up in the old town which was really lovely. There were heaps of monkeys in the park opposite. Sam and Mick went over to investigate and said there was a guy walking past with a packet of chips in his hand, the monkey swooped down, (yes monkeys can swoop) grabbed the bag, scarpered back to his tree, opened the bag and ate them. Pretty much a crack up! I have to say they were very tame, Michael held out peanuts to them and they were so delicate when they plucked them out of his fingers. They didn't even touch him, I don't think they wanted to get boy germs!!
We were up bright and early the next morning for day 2 post rest ride. What a horrible day, I'm sure it was a gentle uphill, as the 65km seemed to take forever. But finally we arrived in Sabak. It is on the banks of a river and has a museum as its tourist attractions. Other blogs I have read by people who rode through the town complained about how hard it is to find accommodation. We went to the Hays Resort which seems 'flash as' as you ride in, beautiful gardens, imposing entranceway. But in reality it is looking a little tired. We didn't care though, it claimed the honourable title of cheapest place to say so far!! But the best bit had to be when we left this morning, we got all loaded up, pretty much in the dining room with our bikes - as that's where we had stored them the night before. The boys were muttering about breakfast and I just assumed it would be way over budget - well anyway I went and asked and heard the magic words - 'breakfast included' We had rice, we had cereal, we had toast, we had teh - and what's more we cycled like demons for the first 2 hours today - what a difference some decent kai makes!
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