We are now properly into Jungle country as we near the Laos border. We left the bush camp at 08:00 and quickly re-joined the motorway. We stopped for lunch at Puer which seems to be growing very quickly judging by the amount of new building going up on the outskirts.
The scenery changed dramatically during the day to tea plantations, rubber estates and steamy jungle. We went through a number of tunnels on our way down to the border, some of them 4 km long. Again we passed through a number of toll gates on the motorway. Bush Camps sites are really very scarce in this part of south east China and we pulled off the road into a small clearing in the jungle at 16:45. During cooking it started to rain heavily and we put up the Truck tarpaulin and of course as soon as it was up the rain stopped. The weather remained very close and we heard thunder in the near distance.
We are hoping to be at the border at 09:00 in the morning.
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