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Day 16 - Wed 27 Nov: Segamat to Keluang

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At 9pm last night it was 27 deg (feels like 31) while today went from 24 to 33 deg with 85 % humidity. It felt hotter around midday the reflection off the road sucked the water out of you as quickly as you could drink it. Ride: 90km; total: 785km Out for an early walk just on dawn; best part of the day. Called in to the 24 hour 7 Eleven for a real coffee in case I didn’t get any at breakfast. No brekky at the hotel again so Ramish organized some at a Muslim restaurant about 200m from the hotel. The food was fresh and delicious, I particularly enjoyed the roti bread and watching it being made. There were also some nice little sweet cakes which were made with rice and tapioca in the main that went down well with the cup of tea. Rode away from the restaurant about 8:30am into an already warm and humid day. Ended up just short of 90km, most of which was like a roller coaster again, either uphill or downhill, very rarely flat. Then we hit a dirt road detour that was 8 to 10km of rough, ...