Distance: 82.1 km
Ave speed: 17.0 km/hr
Max speed: 60.3 km/hr

This was not a hardship, as it was gorgeous. While coasting down a fairly sizable hill, a truck pulled alongside me, and a little girl insisted on giving me some watermelon flavoured gummies out the window. Later, at the top of a hard climb, I stopped at a pullout to use the bano, where there was a stall of folks processing sugar cane. They took pity on me and gave me a cup of cane juice (which is a frightening mossy green colour but tastes great).

Arrived in Puyo at about 1pm, just as the rain started. I rolled into a restaurant and garbled my way through asking for some food. Without a written menu, I was totally lost in high-speed Espanol and asked for the server’s favourite thing. What they brought me was a big bowl of cabbage, potato and pork hock soup, and then a huge plate of rice, beet and onion salad, fried plantain, chicken and beans. All for $2.50 US. It also came with much appreciated refilling juice.

My plan had been to stay in Puyo but it seemed too early to stop, so I found a campground on the map further along my route and skipped out on the attractions of Puyo. It turns out that my request to camp was unusual, but they had a mostly empty storage building big enough for my tent, and that suits me fine.

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