Day 2

Today was a long day of 86km with more on roads than yesterday but with a steep offroad hill climb at the end, which the guide, Gideon, was reluctant to describe in advance for fear of scaring us too much.

Early rise and very interesting start to the ride travelling through the town of Agona with a busy market and chaotic road, choked with traffic.

We made good progress with plenty of breaks and lots of rehydration as today was noticeably hotter with occasional cloud cover.

Jim and Tim

We had a long break at lunch (at a school) which was not intentional due to African time management but this kept us out of the midday sun.

School girls watching our group

We got to learn about the final challenge later in the day and this entailed 2 very (very) steep off road climbs for 5km. I did it but found it really hard and this rounded off a great day.

The car should be driving on the right, but the potholes take it on a different course.

The map of the ride: