<p>Before lunch we climbed for some 15 kilometers to reach a higher plateau. Fortunately, the incline was manageable, there wasn't much traffic, and the road was well shaded by trees, so it was quite pleasant.</p>
<p>After lunch we rode through a farming region in the midst of sugar cane harvest. Lots of men, women and children in the fields, tractors hauling wagon loads down the road, crushing operations, and people spreading the crushed stocks in the sun to dry. We saw one place where men were boiling down the juice in a huge open vat.</p>
<p>One town we rode through had a Sunday market down the highway, many vegetable sellers, and lots of shoppers.</p>
<p>There are large trees blooming in the same way that magnolia do; large flowers on bare branches. The flowers are red, and there are thorns on the trunk.</p>
I arrived at the hotel at 3, temperature in the shade was 35c, and we had covered 120 km. I felt more tired than usual, and I drank a lot of water on arrival. I am glad that we have a rest day here.
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