{"id":163,"date":"2008-06-06T18:10:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T07:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/cycling-through-karsts\/"},"modified":"2008-06-09T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T05:56:37","slug":"cycling-through-karsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/cycling-through-karsts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Through Karsts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The plan is to rent some bikes, so when Natalia finally wakes up (complaining slightly that I didn’t bother to wake her up), we head down and grab some breakfast.\u00c2\u00a0 We swing by the sunglasses place, but she’s forgotten to bring us the zhongzhe.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow, she assures us.\u00c2\u00a0 We get some bikes from the Backstreets guesthouse.\u00c2\u00a0 They seem pretty decent, although the saddles are never great on these bikes.<\/p>\n

We follow the map to a bike trail that runs near, but not along side the river.\u00c2\u00a0 Natalia isn’t sure, but I win her over with my confidence that we’re heading towards Moon Hill, which is a karst formation with a moon shaped hole in it.\u00c2\u00a0 Who wouldn’t want to see that?<\/p>\n

After a scenic bike ride, we arrive at moon hill, fend off the women trying to sell us water (“You’re too polite.” Natalia tells me.), and make our way up the hill.\u00c2\u00a0 A bit of a hike, but nothing compared to the Krabi climb a couple of months prior.\u00c2\u00a0 We take some pictures up there, fending off even more water sellers, then descend, taking a different path so we can see the hill from a distance.\u00c2\u00a0 We grab a drink and a light lunch from the cafe, before venturing out.<\/p>\n\"IMG_8327\"\n

We plan on going for an extra long ride, but the rain starts, so we figure we’ll head back.\u00c2\u00a0 About 20 minutes from town, it really starts to pour, so we duck into a restaurant and decide to eat a second lunch.\u00c2\u00a0 Noodle soup.\u00c2\u00a0 Simple.<\/p>\n\"IMG_8347\"\n

It’s still raining, but a little less hard, so we make our way back into town, drop off the bikes, and have a shower at the guesthouse.\u00c2\u00a0 For dinner we get some yak cheese pizza at a place run by an Ottawa native.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s got a bunch of good books, so I’ll probably be back to grab at least one before I leave.<\/p>\n\"IMG_8345\"\n

The weather is still lousy, so we get some sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The plan is to rent some bikes, so when Natalia finally wakes up (complaining slightly that I didn’t bother to wake her up), we head down and grab some breakfast.\u00c2\u00a0 We swing by the sunglasses place, but she’s forgotten to bring us the zhongzhe.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow, she assures us.\u00c2\u00a0 We get some bikes from the Backstreets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}