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Day 11: Sat 9 Nov - Tuy Hoa to Quang Ngai

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23-29 degC Ride: 38km "After breakfast at the hotel, we transfer about 30km, Cycle through back roads Qui Nhon where we have lunch at a local restaurant; transfer the rest way to Quang Ngai. Overnight in Quang Ngai city. Hotel: The Harmonia Hotel. Cycle: 60km+" Hooray, Wendy was well enough to get back on the bike today. After a fairly good breakfast we rode away from the hotel at 7:30am. It was Bob and Carmel’s turn to do the bus thing today. It will be great when we are all free of the dreaded lurgy!  Within a few km we were pulling over for our first photo opportunity at “The Tower”. A much more specy edifice at night when it’s lit with a series of bright lights continually changing colour. Northward we pushed, into one of the many rice bowls of the country. But not everyone grows the staple, with plenty of cattle, duck farms, fish farms, Australian hardwood plantations and a stack of tropical crops and market gardens in full swing. However the further north we ventured th...