Day 5 - 4th October - Aburi to Koforidua

Today was another start for breakfast at 6:30am and we start cycling at 7:30am which we are very grateful as today is very hot with the sun already high in the sky and the temperature soon rises to 36 degrees.
We left our hotel and retraced our route through Aburi town which is a very steep decent and then climb out of the valley before then descending the 5 km down the steep hill that we had climbed the night before.   This was particularly challenging going down as the surface was very rough and steep and we there were lots of screeching of the brakes.

We then joined dirt roads and the scenery was very green with many pineapple and banana fields which made the many hills more interesting as we climbed them in the baking heat.


Just before lunch we passed through the busy market town of Nkrankang which was fascinating, with every produce you could think being sold by small street sellers.  This included sandals made out of tyres.

Check out the picture of the taxi stuffed with bananas.  There must have been a buy one get one free offer.

The lunch time stop was another small village and everyone was out to greet us.  We are a very unusual sight with our yellow jerseys and by now our very brown bodies covered in the dust of the roads.  Peter made another superb lunch this time Spaghetti Bolognese chocolate cake!!!!

After lunch we made our way to Koforidua stopping on the way to see how Cassava root is grated, and pressed.   It was great to see the local industry at work.

In total we covered 78 kilometres which was very tough with the road surfaces, heat and the hills!