From our sugar cane crater, through lava fields from volcano Ceboruco on hwy 15D, nice downhill ride to Jala (almost 10 km) and then uphill again to Ixtlán del Rio. More uphills until we reached another volcano, which the road is winding around in sharp curves.Steep downhill ride (in our direction).
Learning:
- that what goes up must go down
- that it is hard to find purificadora in Ixtlán del Rio, as well as some marketplace; but when you need water, people just give it to you for free
- that when you are not sure if you have enough water till the next day, you find a full bottle of water on the next rest stop
- that sugar cane can be good even after whole day in pannier facing the sun
Living:
~ we left our campsite with our stomachs full of sugar from sugar cane (and with full box of cut cane)
~ after we got through lava fields and some small hills, there was amazing downhill, but slalom between broken truck tires
~ Ixtlán del Rio was one big chaos and confusion for us, we couldn't find any marketplace and finally had to go far from centre to find one supermarket; then we wanted to get some water from purificadora, which we found your was on the other side of the town, but when we got there, it was closed. Luckily there were guys who sell bottles with water and they were so nice and gave us water for free (by the way, guys working in purificadora almost never asked for money for water which they gave us)
~ from Ixtlán we were sweating through more uphills until we got to "curvas peligrosas" ("dangerous curves" but translated in Slovak it means "dangerous whores" :-)), where another amazing downhill ride with beautiful views started(if you are suicidal enough to look around instead of on the road in front of you)
~ for tonight we found small valley with gravel dumping site, but otherwise it was beautiful, with small clear stream, and completely for us. What more could we wish more after the hot day, than bath in fresh stream, and then cooking dinner (rise with nopal - cactus opuntia found here, great ingredient for the meals, we'd learned how to use it in Cabo Pulmo) on a camp fire, accompanied by scorpions and bats, flying in the light of full moon?
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