2017-09-24 Day 161 Sun

We continued on our loop. We turned off the orange road at Pasacanchato onto a yellow to head south. The road deteriorated and we were back to a slow pot holey dirt road. We were low on fuel and the fuel marked on the map was unavailable as the owner could not be found. We were told next village. After 3 "next" villages we spoke to a truckie and he told us fuel was available in Chinchoobamba.

As we were dropping our tyre pressure a shepherd came to speak to us. she seemed very interested.
We left and went around the corner and she had run down to talk to us again. She allowed me to take her photo and was so very happy. Lovely to try and talk to the locals. She spoke Spanish , quetuine and another local dialect.

 Saw some stipey piglets!
Road was not really as bad as it looked (thankfully)

We turned off to a white road and found diesel in cinchobamba. Again the owner was missing so a lady served us. Bought 2 x 5 gallon buckets of diesel and poured it in with a big long angle funnel.
The biggest gum tree we have seen . And in the town-square!

Decided to continue on white road out to rejoin yellow further on. Found a lovel spot to stop for lunch and had sandwiches in the schoolbus shelter. A very slow road but nice scenes to enjoy. In Pompabamba we decided to fill tanks with fuel.

Started talking to some girls then noticed the markets. Went shopping and Maria came with me and helped me buy vegies and fruit. She did not want us to leave saying there was a festival that night but we swapped social media accounts and drove on. Stopped on a wee rise 30 feet from the road.