Day 130: Xingyi to Anlong

Alarms were set for 0730, as we thought our normal body clocks might not wake us after a late night ‘laptoping’ in the hotel room. Coming round from our slumber, we realised it was absolutely chucking it down outside. As I lay in my warm, comfortable bed, I felt like asking Adam if we could just have another rest day and laze in bed, but I knew I’d regret it when I needed a rest day later down the line. With many, many kilometres to cover before we get to Hong Kong within our 30 day visa, ‘rest days’ are precious, and at this point, only 5 days in we needed to make some more distance before we could warrant a full day off (and we did have all afternoon off yesterday!). On a positive note, the rain was forecast to stop by 1000. Continue reading →