2018-01-04 Day 245 Thu

Finally off to the museum Rocsen. Wow and what a museum. This has grown out of one mans collections. The front wall has 40 statues ranging chronologically from homo-sapien to Martin Luther King.

The museum was full to the brim - stuff of the walls and ceilings everywhere. Something to cover anybodies interest. Steam engines of all sizes and one that caught our eye was a small one that ran a tiny workshop, lathe, grinder wheel, bench saw, drill press, maybe for a clock maker or other very small mechanisms. There was a 2 headed calf, a huge bull 1600kg and taller than us, human skulls, gemstones, lights, film projectors, xray machines, ancient ceramics, a fantastic bug and butterfly collection, a world wide coin collection, etc etc. We spent 3 hours looking and both our feet and backs were tired and sore. When we arrived there were 3 cars when we left about 50 with a parking attendant. Well worth driving half way across the continent to see.
We drove out on a dirt road and past the two small pointed hills that give the town its name Nono (breasts). We continued on a dirt back road for the first 70km’s - it was very straight. And turned off on a sealed road to go down an escarpment in a Reserva Natural Chancani. Neat place and nice to be on windy roads again. However the out look to the west was just flat plains stretching to the horizon with shrubs covering it. We would be driving this soon. Another 180km of pretty straight flat road. The first 80km was on a dirt road which in most cases was a 70kph road. This then turned to sealed when we joined with another road. The only feature was a “wet” area that was mostly dry with its salt residue left to sparkle in the sun.
Turning north we travelled another 10km and found a camp just off the side of the road under the power lines, still in view of the traffic but there is only scrub here. Quite a long day but there was not much to see, it was 38 ۫ C outside and very windy we just kept driving. We got to bed about 10:30 and it was still 35 degrees, but the wind was blowing so we weren't feeling too hot. The wind did stop in the night and I had to revert to putting on a wet T shirt to keep cool.