Rongjiang to Sanjiang – Day 6

Heading out of Rongjiang and onto a new national road, we expected the roads to get better. Wrong again. More corrugated roads start a breakfastless morning (we also thought we could find breakfast on the way). So it was another slow day in Guizhou, but as we got closer to Guangxi the going started to get better and we started to average around 30 km/h.
We stopped for lunch in a Dong village, who are another of the official minorities in China. While I’m used to eating with chopsticks in Chongqing, we ate sticky rice and pork chops with our hands.


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Heading into Guangxi the weather started to worsen and light rain started to fall. After two hours, things started getting rather wet and cold and, again, darkness started to creep into the sky. Before we started our trip we agreed that we shouldn’t drive at night in the countryside because it’s dangerous, with bikes and animals on the roadsides, but we have been constantly caught between towns with accomodation, so there we’ve had no other option.

So we got into Sanjiang late, exhausted again, and wet.