Walk to Agouti

Today we start our walks. Only 12 km today apparently.
We leave at 9 am having given our luggage to the mules to carry, and get to our lunch picnic spot under the trees a bit before 12.

We are led by local Mama Bia.

Not sure of the temperature but it's a bit of a sweaty walk so I drink plenty of water and wear the hat.

We walk out of the village popping into some school children's class to say hi. We walk along the small river sometimes in the dry bits of the river bed, sometimes in their fields/ garden plots. Sometimes through a small village.
People are out washing their rugs in the river while it's hot enough for them to dry.
Most people don't want their photo taken, you have to ask.
It's interesting to see close up their plots and crops and how they water them. They are quite the engineers making water channels and then divert some to flood a field.

The villages are a mix of falling down ruins and new concrete buildings that haven't had the red render on it yet.
The old buildings are stone and daub, coloured with their local ochre dirt.

We have a lovely salad and sardine lunch prepared by our "team", the mule drivers and a rest under the trees.

We walk another 15 minutes to get to our gite (guesthouse). About 1.30.
We then relax and have a shower.
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