{"id":12539,"date":"2014-03-27T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12539"},"modified":"2014-03-27T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T14:23:29","slug":"taiping-to-huang-city-on-geoffs-e-asia-bike-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12539","title":{"rendered":"Taiping to Huang City on Geoff&#8217;s E Asia bike trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12542\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12542\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8677.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12542\" alt=\"Hotel Huang City\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8677-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel Huang City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another very long &amp; hot day. I was beginning to get worried at 70 miles that I would be able to find a hotel at all! However at 87 miles the Hotel Huang City in Hutan Melintang loomed into view, so I quickly paid my \u00a312 and checked \u00a0in with the very giggly girl receptionists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12540\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8673.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12540\" alt=\"Lovely junk food\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8673-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lovely junk food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The main preoccupation of the day was trying to find air conditioned places &amp; cold drinks, preferably together \ud83d\ude42 7\/11 stores are good but they have no seating inside so you have to eat\/drink the goodies on the hot pavement. I did find one gorgeous garage that had a small table &amp; chairs inside, in fact I could have stayed in there for hours&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The roads were infernally busy especially with old Chinese Tatra tankers &amp; trucks \u00a0belching out black smoke. \u00a0Plus the motorcyclists weaving around. The scenery wasn&#8217;t to great, once again miles upon miles of palm oil plantations (I guess that is what was in the decrepit old tanker trucks) although at one point I skirted some mountains that looked jungly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to wonder that maybe I should have stayed on the Eastern side of the country as that doesn&#8217;t seem to have any major highways, equally it probably doesn&#8217;t have A\/C or Western style cold drinks, although that&#8217;s pure speculation.<\/p>\n<p>The new saddle has done the trick and I no longer am getting a sore behind, so having a shiny saddle is good for your shorts to slip on, rather than the shorts sticking on the saddle &amp; trying to slip on your bottom thus making \u00a0it sore. Probably the secret to the Brookes saddles \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Strava now \u00a0reckons I&#8217;ve done 2,127 miles of pedalling &amp; 47,643 vertical feet, which according to my reckoning only \u00a0leaves another 400 or so miles to do \ud83d\ude42 in the next 11 days.<\/p>\n<p>Here is todays Strava:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/124335986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12541\" alt=\"Taiping_to_Huang_City___Strava_Ride\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Taiping_to_Huang_City___Strava_Ride-1024x425.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>The pics of the <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5995447894325321073\">day are here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another very long &amp; hot day. I was beginning to get worried at 70 miles that I would be able to find a hotel at all! However at 87 miles the Hotel Huang City in Hutan Melintang loomed into view, so I quickly paid my \u00a312 and checked \u00a0in with the very giggly girl receptionists. 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