The long trip back home .......

I apologize for not getting any pictures of the LONG trip back home. It took 6 flights to get back to Canada. I flew to Calgary to meet Roddy (my husband) for a week there.

I learnt to never let someone you don't know very well book your travel plans. We could have made it back to the US with one transfer easily. Our flights were long and crowded. I was very happy to back once I hit the Calgary airport!

Boot Camp continued

After hiking down the canyon and seeing the little caves, with more fresco's and wandering the trails we headed back up. Yikes! It was hot and it was much harder going up than coming down. At the top we got ice cream, the only thing we figured was safe to eat as it was in a wrapper! Then the long drive back, which became a lot longer than we though as it wound through another small valley. We took a different route home, very pretty and different terrain. We almost wondered if we were lost at one point, the scenery looked so different.

Pictures of me, at boot camp!

Ilhara Valley (otherwise known as boot camp day!)

After the underground city we decide to drive to Ilhara Valley. What a drive it was It was a good two hours across fields and around a large mountain, but seeing the valley was well worth the drive. We took little to eat with us as we'd had no problems up till now finding decent restaurants to eat in. THIS was another trip entirely! We found no places to eat on the way down, so we snacked on our nuts and ate all our dried fruit. Once we got to Ilhara we realized we'd not be eatting their either, this was the first and only place we'd seen one of the icky toilets everyone had been warning us about. But not to worry we had our arsenal of handy wipes! Since the toilet was so icky we decided eatting there was a bad idea, so we grabbed our waters and headed down the canyon.

Underground city

The next day we went to the underground city and a beautiful valley FAR FAR away! The underground city was very interesting, we got a guide which was good because we'd have missed a lot of it on our own. Andrea ventured off through a lot of the tunnels, I stayed put in the larger rooms!

Mare and Foals

After the thunder storm left, and the sun came back out we saw a really lovely sight. Out of the caves came wandering a mare and two foals. They are the horses from a dude string that takes out trail rides.

Look close you can see them in these pictures.

One of my favorite photos

This is one of my favorite photos of the trip.

Valleys

The next day we took a drive around, we wanted to see several of the small valleys and some of the villages.

Later in the evening a thunder storm rolled in, it made for some pretty cool photos.