| Cimaja to Ujung Gesting | |||||
| Date: | 10-09-2014 | Time: | 05:21 h | Σ Time: | 117:20 h |
| Distance: | 97 km | Σ km: | 2426 km | Temp: | 21/35 °C |
| Up: | 1279 m | Σ Up: | 25066 m | Calories: | 2220 kcal |
| Down: | 1288 m | Σ Down: | 24967 m | Σ kcal: | 54139 kcal |
| Conditions: | Another joy ride. Roads good. Climb long but never steep, easy to find a pace to make it to the top effortless. Temperatures moderate. Head wind in the afternoon turning back to sea. | ||||
Another enjoyable cycling day. The morning climb after 15 km on the main road from sea level to almost 800 m was a ‘piece of cake’. Easy to find the right gear and pace to finish the 20 km gradual slope in one turn. Thereafter all day long downhill. That is how it should be. The vegetation and landscape changed. Hilly with endless tea plantations, with tea pickers at work. I stopped to ‘chat’ with some of the tea pickers – great fun. Another stop at a school where girls and boys were playing soccer together in heir school uniforms. I ‘crashed’ another school lesson and turned it into a ‘the stranger entertaining the kids’ lesson. At the end the kids formed a quire and sang an Indonesian song for me. The day ended at the Turtle Beach Hotel – nice, spacey and clean. Unfortunately someone must have told them that we must all be Germans! Only Beer at the bar, no soft drinks. We were told that the turtles usually come to the beach at around 8/9pm, so we will have a chance to see them tonight.
