From Zamora we took wrong turn and went to Jacona, therefore we did small detour and had to return back to Zamora. Finally we continued on the road #15 to Chilchota. The road was without shoulder and traffic was quite high but it wasn't very hilly.
Learning:
- that an intuition isn't always enough and you have to check the map too
- that the only and the biggest gothic cathedral in Latin America is in Zamora (information from locals :-))
- that some kind of Swifts live around Zamora's cathedral (and peregrine falcon too)
- that we can go with our bicycles also downstairs
- that it is hard to pedal when your brakes are too tight
- that this region is good for planting strawberries and cabbage and for making the bricks
- that sometimes is very hard to find purificadora
- that Mexicans are obsessed with their speed bumps (called topes here), today we had to cross more-less 200 topes
- one pick up car can carry about 20 to 30 workers + tools or material
Living:
~ in the morning we find out, how people here water their strawberries fields - they just flood them
~ morning atmosphere on the streets of Zamora
~ gothic cathedral in Zamora was the highlight of the day; it had been abandoned for very long time, but after ten years of reconstructions it is opened forth year already, and it's vitrages are amazing
~ we stopped for lunch in some street stand which sells tortas (different kind of burgers, here it costs 25 pesos and 10 pesos for drink), people here were very friendly and they told us about history of Zamora's cathedral
~ our detour to Jacona was a little fiasco, but we found out that we can go downstairs with our bicycles (but not sitting on them :-))
~ Baška needed to tight her rear brakes, I did too good job, because after a few kilometers when Baška was complaining about hard pedaling, we found out that her brakes had been on all the time
~ this land is land of strawberries and cabbage fields and bricks - they are made with only as sophisticated tools as shovels and sun dried
~ to find purificadora in small town of Chilchota was impossible; but why do we need purificadora if they have this amazing, strong and probably clean spring which supply whole town with water? (But we filter it anyway).
~ little bit of night riding in the dark again; fortunately cars couldn't go very fast, because there were one village after another and many, many topes (this time we were glad)
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