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Day 6 - Sun 17 Nov: Thon Bok Kherani National Park to Krabi

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Fine and sunny 25 to 33 deg and high humidity during the middle part of the day. Ride: 63km; total ride: 123km Walk: 2km   The day started early for me, dawn, with a walk around the local area, more palm oil plantations and villages, not much else. Brekky arrived at our room at 7am and it was fairly slim pickings for a bunch of big blokes who are about to cycle in hot and humid conditions for over 60km; it was a quarter of a dodgy sandwich and one very cold egg accompanied by two tiny sausages. Apparently the “resort” (Dusit Phuphaya) doesn’t have any food, so it had to be bought in via plastic containers. Anyway, we survived and were on the bikes at 8am. It wasn’t long before we pulled into the Than Bok Khorani National Park “featuring waterfalls”. The “falls” were a drop of 20cm max but the water features and surrounding rainforest were very impressive. And, more importantly, the coffee at the shop back at the entrance was very nice. The ride was straight forward and pleasant, a...