Our hotel last night was also known as a pizzeria. We had a nice eggplant pizza where they first had to stoke a fire to get coals. Overall, delicious.

Our hotel also overlooked Isalo National Park. From the reviews an interesting place to return.

Breakfast at the hotel and then we set off. Today was less climbing mostly a gradual ride up the hill, 1000 net climb (probably double with the dips). What made today tougher was the wind. Not long after we started we had wind (my estimate 15mph occasionally slightly more). This explains the 7.5mph average cycling speed.

There was enough wind that as we passed some occasional huts along the way, there weren’t kids running out to see us on the road.

We slowly made our way and at 26km was the only real town of the day. This was a good spot for a coke stop and break.

More people along in the village here.

Cell phone tower in front of some basic huts.

After the village a little more of a slog until we reached an agreed upon stop at 52km. It wasn’t the complete 88km to Ihosy but with the wind this was enough of the ride.

Ihosy was a larger crossroads town. The guides didn’t list tourist hotels though we did see some places for rent. The bridges here are mostly one way traffic so we followed the ox drawn cart across the bridge with herded cattle coming our way.

Rather than stop in Ihosy we had decided to continue to Ambalavao. This gives us tomorrow to explore and stay in the same place.

Somewhat different landscapes here.