Day 33, 50.7km: (by Amy)

Where s Wally

We left the town with a market in full swing so bought many bread related products and lots of boiled eggs. Awesome! The first 20km was through a busy valley road which was being re-constructed so was horribly rough, noisy and dusty. After this we headed out across a plateau on a wonderfully straight peaceful road through sparse pine forest with a grassy floor where goats grazed. The road undulated and gradually climbed all day. By late afternoon we started switch backing through denser foliage and trees. We camped 1km from the pass at around 10,000ft. Chris found a little spot hidden from the road in the dense foliage. When we had set up camp I picked what I thought was a slug off his sock to find it was a leech! Despite the relatively dry camp there seemed to be quite a few of them trying to climb our legs and suck our blood. We quickly zipped ourselves into the tent.