Day 40 Wed 0411 - Oudomxai to Lak ha sip Village Camp

Today dist : 50.9 km        Total : 2231.5 km
Today Temp : 24-30 C    Cloudy with night rain
Ride time: 5 hr 57 min
Ave speed : 8.5 kmh    Max : 48.5
Ave climb: 4 %  Max: 11 %
Trip alti : 1195 m    Max: 1204 m
Today Spend:  60k Kips   Total: 2710 Rmb+1948k dong+ 485k kips

The highlight for today is surprisingly met a young couple of Malaysian tourer after 12km from Oudomxai.They were fixing a puncture in the hut,they recognised me when they saw we.it's good to meet fellow Malaysian tourers on the road,What a small world!!! This couple Hong and his girl friend Coey already on the road for 7 months on their Asia Tour,they will continue to ride till Vientiane which is the same direction as me.They did not mind to ride together.Our pace about the same when climbing but I was faster on the downhill,the road NH13 is mostly under reconstruction of digging the old gravel stone to lay a new layer, so it's a bumpy ride most of the time with dust all over. We had a rather expensive good lunch in Namkuoat for 110k Kips,and then continued the uphill pumpy ride.the sky didn't look good and threatening to rain any time, but it's hard to find a really clean campsite along this stoney and dusty road, until we saw a village and a place to bathe, we were just in time to set up our tents before the rain hit us.

Oudomxai morning view from my room

Oudomxai morning view from my room

Many Chinese restaurants in Oudomxai,this is Chinese breakfast

Oudomxai bus station

Riding out from Oudomxai

Road still under repair

Laos workers working for the Chinese contractor

View at a high point to the road I passed

The red earth cliff wall looks very solid

The Chinese tractor working 

Newly laid tarmac

Met fellow Malaysian on the way to Pak Mong

With fellow Malaysian tourers Hong and Coey

This is Coey Chan,pint size but bags lots of power

End of a unpaved road to a paved one

Good lunch but rather expensive

Hong and Coey

Many sections of road still unpaved 

Hong and Coey

Traditional Laos village house

Traditional Laos village house

Many sections of road still unpaved 

Ohpoooo....what happens

You are the man...Hong

Road temporary closed 

Tractors are working on the whole road

But we got green light to cross by the side

 Lak ha sip Village Camp

 Lak ha sip Village Camp,the morning after