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Day 4.
Wake up refreshed but burned to fuck as forgot to apply cream to tops of my hands.
Leave Berja - after Tostada and a challenging toilet / no paper standard in the cafe.
Small road to the gravel section that we'd fretted over as it looks like the end of the world on komoot.
Get to doom section and realise it's amazing, long but amazing and pretty mellow.
Get to top and realise burned some more as obv hot af.
See the plastic sea, amazing but a bit shite if you need to work in them greenhouses I guess.
Descent is obv amazing. Gravel scalextric track all the way down to a river bed
River bed is hot af, see some chad gravelistas - noone looks like they are having fun.
Climb up to Felix for beers & fried squid. Hot AF.
Road climb up and gravel / mtb down to Gador. Buy more sun cream and decide to push onto desert to camp
Stop at services for a can / scran.
Tabernas desert has 3 gates, 1 was open. 2 were not. Really need 2 people to get around / over them. Why has desert got a gate? Nuclear dumping ground? Hunger games arena?
Loads of signs saying private, ignore.
Get the fear that some sniper / drone is going to take me out so keep pushing on with the mindset that we might need to ride straight through.
Luis gets to use his badman light which helpfully will make it much easier for any desert raiders to pinpoint our position.
Becomes apparent in no condition to ride straight through. Find camp spot mercifully off a section of trail that looks like a footpath rather than gravel road. Everywhere else would have been impossible before the 3rd gate.
Setup camp - just mat on floor.
Marvel at stars
Wake up and put up tent as started to read about desert tarantulas after i felt something on my face.
Beers, 2 inc 1 can.
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