Another soggy day in paradise. My hands were prune-shriveled from the web when I finished. It was wet from mid-morning for entire day and only paused a little after I finished.

Left Popayan early with not much city traffic. With a few kilometers I was back on the main road to Pasto. It was busier and there was sharp lip between main road and shoulder so had to pick where to ride.

A lot of hills today, overall over 1000m of climb even though the net was a descent. I came through coffee growing regions and saw places where they had beans drying underneath covered awnings.

A number of these roadside places. By now it had started to rain more steadily.

At 40km was town of Rosas. I was still at same net elevation, but there was a 16km long downhill after this.

Was tempting to check into little hotel here, though also wanted to get some more distance.

Waterfall along the road on way down.

More restaurants, some mist coming on the camera lens.

Town of El Bordo was reasonable size and mostly strung along the highway. I had seen a hotel sign that I tried to follow from Google Maps. Went way back into town and there wasn’t a hotel there, so circled back to main road and found spot close to center of town. It was still raining a reasonable amount, but fortunately subsided not long after that.