3
separate visitors this morning. The first two were fishery inspectors
and chatted for a while. One showed us pictures of some Americans who
had camped down on the water a few weeks ago.
As
we started to pack up a third visitor arrived, a army person. He
was a nasty piece of work. Very angry, we were not sure why. Anyway
he wanted us to leave which suited us fine as we were already packing
up. He wanted to see passports and I wanted to see his ID which he
showed me. In future I’ll photograph them. He wanted to see visa
but we don’t need one. He took photos of our photo page then wanted
to take photo of Brazil visa….As we were leaving he decided he wanted a selfie with us, but we just drove off. He was not a nice person.
Finally
started to see some more hills. Kind of clay hills or very hard sand
hills. Quite baron but the valleys are fertile with water.
A
lot of people out cleaning up road sides with hoes, mostly women. Donkeys
are become more numerous and are seen carrying water cans, hay,
grass, branches, people. Bee
hives are also very prominent, with hives often being located on trailers.
We
had decided to try a track to see if we could loop through the
mountains. Just north of Denov so headed west.
We
walked along the road to the fall and had a look. Fascinating the way
the water exits the rock wall ¾ of the way down.
Met
a group of teachers and one guy chatted to us for a while. The first
foreigner he had spoken to in english…
We
continued along the road to a track then a very small bridge and a
deep narrow fast flowing river which we could have forded with some
work but we had no conviction the track went very much further
anyway, so we found a flat spot and called it a day.
Nice
cool breeze coming off the river, actually it was quite cool.
189km
189km