Day 52

Chinese breakfasts are notoriously difficult for the western palette to get used to.  They tend to include a bowl of rice in a very watery liquid, small plates of cold spicy vegetables such as green beans and maybe some cold meat, which could be chicken claws.

Often there is some kind of dumpling either plain or filled with meat, and the saving grace is a hard boiled egg. I think we must be getting used to this after more than two weeks as this morning we virtually cleared the table.

We headed out of town to a bamboo forest for what was almost a full day visit.  The forest covers many hundreds of square kilometres of mostly steep hillside and within it are various walking opportunities to visit waterfalls, lakes and of course some retail opportunities.

It was a very enjoyable and relaxing day except for Pat who has a bit of a temperature.

Heading back down from the hills, it was apparent that Pat was really not well, and we opted to stop short of our planned destination so she could get some professional advice.

Tonight's hotel seems a cut above the previous few nights but the cost is still only £13 per room.  So far we haven't spoted a single cockroach, and the toilet is not a hole in the bathroom floor.

Tonight Pat is in the clinic next door where her temperature is down from over 40 to 39.4. If it's below 38 in the morning the doctor is happy for her to continue travelling to Kunming.  If it isn't then he recommends she stay in the clinic.  This would give me a bit of a problem as my sister has flown from Shanghai to Kunming this evening so we can meet up there tomorrow.

Expected cause of Pat's fever is not aclimbatising, by riding around in an air conditioned car, then getting out into the heat and humidity. This apparently stops the body's cooling mechanisms working correctly and there is a heat build up in the body core.

Lat 28 37.74 N
Long 104 24.01 E
Town Shui Fu

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