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Published: October 16th 2018
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The bed is comfortable and the air in the room a bit chilly, so we do not rise early, although we do Skype our parents back in the UK.
First task today is to deliver our sack of washing to the laundry. Slightly worryingly the assistant quotes a price of 80 pesos for the load, about half that we have been charged elsewhere, and a completion time of only 3 hours! We somehow doubt this will be the price when we come to collect - it’s a pretty big bag and 80 pesos is only just over £3!
We return to the hotel and decide to try their breakfast, largely as I have seen that they serve fruit and yoghurt. Ian sticks to scrambled eggs and ham, something that they never get wrong.
So now we are off to visit the three amigos to find out about their mountain bike hire. Today they are open but all the bikes are gone. That doesn’t matter as we are planning to do the ride tomorrow so that we can have a full day out. There are quite a few things to see and some are quite a distance!
Bike
hire sorted, we go for a stroll around the souvenir shops - all full of Taramahura artisan handicrafts and the usual tourist tat. Although the products in each are pretty much identical, we decide to purchase a few items from the Mission Store as the profit is more likely to reach the pockets of the local artisans here than elsewhere.
We return to our room for a mini siesta and then set off on foot to see the Valley of the Mushrooms - it’s about 4km from town. We pass some interesting rock formations on the way and then we branch off on a rough uphill track through a sweet smelling pine forest. It’s quite a pleasant walk.
We are now at the summit and about 2km into our walk but find that, to get any further, we must pay an entrance fee - the same one that we have to pay again tomorrow as the mushrooms are on our route. We therefore decide to wait till tomorrow.
We return to town where our will power has had a temporary lapse and we splash out on ice creams - the lovely scoop flavoured ones in crisp cones
that I adore - Ian has strawberry and I have blueberry - yummy.
Now it’s time to collect our washing so we make our way to the upper high street, walking along the railway lines with the locals. It’s an easy leap to the road and you can hear those trains a mile off!
Our washing is ready, all neatly folded...and it even looks like it’s been ironed! I offer 100 pesos and get 20 back so it was the correct price after all!
This evening we are back at the Italian joint - I really fancy some pasta! Fortunately the waitress speaks a little English and our orders are sorted out without having to run everything through the translator! Our orders turn up - they don’t quite taste Italian (missing the herbs) but not too bad and it’s a nice change from Mexican fare.
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