Santo Domingo to belorado – 24kms

271 kms so far

We had a peasant start to the morning with a stale baguette dipped in vending machine coffee.

We started early at 7.35am to avoid the heat, and got ten minutes out of town when I realised I’d lost my sunglasses. So backtrack we did. Thankfully we found them back in town, lying on the footpath. Phew.

It was a fairly boring walk today alongside a motorway for a lot of it. There were many trucks barreling by, and a few of them blasted their air horns and waved at us. That broke up the monotony a bit.

We walked through fields of opium poppies, at least we think they were. I wasn’t game to try some in case I fell asleep.

We tried to book the next town which is 24 kms away, but they’re fully booked. Now we have no choice but to walk 30kms tomorrow, something we swore we wouldn’t do again.

Oh well, we’ll have an early night, or so we thought .

We had dinner with a couple we met a few days ago. He is from Peru and she is from Germany. Turns out we all get on really well and as well as multiple top ups of Red wine, the owner brings us shots! Yikes!

Oh well. Wish us luck for our 30 kms tomorrow. Eeeek