Travelling Again

After an enjoyable breakfast, it was time to leave and travel once again through vast landscapes of, well, not a lot really. You will see what I mean from the photos in this footprint. You travel for miles over endless flat plains of dry ground, and it's a wonder as to how anything survives, but of course it does, as you can see.

At one point, we stopped to photograph a road which, I realize you're thinking, is a bit weird. But, you have a group of photographers here who can't resist a long, straight road to create a scene with depth and perspective. That's their excuse, of course; they just love playing chicken and risking death from the passing traffic. It wasn't dangerous, though, because those with stand lookout and the road wasn't all that busy.

The journey took three hours and wasn't so bad, and the town was a pleasant surprise. I'm not sure why, but I didn't expect it to look the way it did: it wasn't a big place and the buildings were colourful and not unattractive.Read more