The day started with breakfast at the tea plantation and after a final bike check we were transported to the cycling start point. We did our usual daily warm up (with woodchops and "Oh yeahs"!!!) before our road cycling challenge commenced. The road cycling was a completely different challenge to the dirt track cycling from the day before. Facing different challenges, speed and cars on the road, but no loose rubble to be careful of. The ride was still amazingly hilly and some of those climbs were tough! I put determination on the front of my mind and made it up every hill and didn't push my bike once. I wasn't going to push my bike today and although I stopped a few times on the hills, I got my breath back and peddled till my thighs burned, but I cycled the entire 30km. (I was very grateful for my gel saddle cover!)
We arrived at the Poring Hot Springs and went canopy walking which was great fun! We soaked our tired muscles in the HOT sulphar water after dipping our feet into the waterfall pool where we had a natural fish spa, mini fishes nibbling on our dead skin.....yum!!
Lunch was rice again and we got changed and were taken to a War Memorial, this would be the starting point for our 9km uphill road walk to the Mesilau Nature Resort. The hardest thing was creating a pack which we would use for the next 3 days (an entire mountain trip!) as the rest of our luggage would be seen by us again once we had conquered the summit.
Our walk from the war memorial started at 1000m above sea level. We walked up, over bridges watching young boys playing in the river, we passed a crazy dog whose owner said that he hadn't seen anyone walking along that road in years. The hills were insanely steep and the locals thought we were crazy!
At the nature resort we had a steam boat dinner which was a bit like a fondue, it was amazing and I was so hungry I ate almost my weight in egg fried rice!! The night got cold though and we went to bed early.
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