We left our nice quiet camp and headed south on dirt. We had seen some
tankers go up the road and yes the road was good. The first part of
the day was a bit mundane, then we got into oil fields and lava
flows. Once we passed the last small separating plant the road
degraded. We tried to escape but were hemmed in by the river. At one stage we
drove up through a hill of scoria and the rocks were all sharp and broken.
Saw a flock of large parrots feeding beside the road.
Finally got out onto
the main road which may have been wider, but was a lot rougher than
the track we had been on. We stopped for lunch on the brink of a lava
flow. Really interesting stuff.
Rivers tend to go
around lava flows.
Onto another back
road that passes a national reserve Reserva Provincial Domuyo. Sometimes difficult to find side tracks to be able to get away from the main
road. The reserve had a road down to a lake and some people were
camped a ways from the water up the rise of the volcano Tromen near
the end of a lava flow. We decided to go out and camp by the road
just above the end of one of the other lava flows.