Well since I
had a restless sleep, I was up before the alarm. I got ready for our hike-,
which didn’t take long; I didn’t need to beautify myself or anything! We had a
“good” breakfast – CERAL! Yummy! And then our companions and us drove about
40mins down a rough dirt road to the hiking spot. Man it was gorgeous! We are definitely in the desert. And since we are in a dry crater, you are surrounded by ridges and
places to climb and hike! We saw some amazing views. We did a hike for about 4
½ hours and then the couple dropped us and Thomas off along the way back and we
did another 1 ½ hour hike up the ridge to the hostel. It was pretty dry; my
mouth was parched the whole time, but surprisingly it didn’t seem that hot.
Because it is dry heat you don’t sweat as much as humid heat- which I like, I
don’t like being sweaty all the time. We walked during one point through a dry
riverbed that was really awesome. We climbed up a small “mountain” to get a
really good view of the whole crater. We felt like we were on the edge of the
world. And you can see many different colors of sand- brown, black, red, yellow
and even a mauve color.
We were glad to get back to the hostel as it
was getting to be the hotter time of the day. We shed our sand covered shoes
and I hopped in the shower before having some lunch (more leftovers from the
wedding). Now time to relax. Maybe chat with Yosh and Lee (the owners) about
maybe coming to volunteer for a month. Until then, nothing is on the itinerary
by resting!
Well, resting didn’t last long. Thomas- the
eager, friendly German- convinced us to go and see some more places. So we went
to the “statue” garden, which has a bunch of abstract (weird) statues in
amongst this rocky ground. And when we came back we had dinner (leftovers from
the wedding still) and skyped with mom and dad Jensen. We talked with Yosh and
Lee about volunteering, but we told them it depended on when our visas for Tanzania come (we already have Spencer's, and mine is getting re-done). Off
to bed, another hike planned for the morning.
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