Travellingman reisverhalen - - Filadelfia - Concepcion
Day 6: Woensdag 1 maart 2017
Filadelfia - Concepcion

I was up early. I first inspected my car, which was under heavy mud. Some of the mud I pulled away, by hand but there was too much to take it all away. Especially the wheel housing had suffered. I started to sweat some of this work as soon as the sun is up, it gets warmer. Then breakfast. I did that on my own, the other guests were not awake yet. My bag I had packed, I left around 09:30 AM. First on the muddy paths to Filadelfia. After I had tanked, I wanted to have my car washed, but that was not possible. Hereafter I made a stop and visit the museums. There are four in a row. I was explaining by one of the managers. About how the Mennonites had arrived here from Germany and Russia, and there were also many artifacts from that time. At the Unger museum were many stuffed animals from the region and there was also a museum about the original inhabitants and the development of the Mennonites (named after Menno Simons). The visits took me over an hour. A lot of the information in a short time. Everything in Filadelfia is cooperative governed, while in many other places families themselves must take of them selves.

It was meanwhile 11 AM before I drove on. I drove to Loma Plato, again on a dirt road. Once there, the town disappointed me. A lot of industrie and agricultural vehicles. The surrounding is beautiful, I visited the supermarket and bought some energy bars and drove on again. I stopped once for a picture of a large bird in a lake. After 15 kilometers I was at the T-junction. I took the direction to Neuland, but I never reached it, because I noticed that I ran out of time. I returned after 20 kilometers and drove back.

The road is not always good and I had regularly slowly drive through the pits. In other parts it went better. The further south I went, the more palm trees again appeared in the landscape. There were few places to stop and eventually I stopped to near a storing place to stretch my legs. It was warm.

Then I drove to the exit to Concepcion and then had another 140 kilometers to go. Initially, the road deadly dull, long straight pieces. There were many dead animals on the road. The area is green with a variety of vegetation. However, there are no places to stop. Just when I thought that the dullness of the road would break me up the road appeared to have all kinds of holes and was flooded with sand. Here you have to drive much slower. This definitely was some 30 kilometers through. I made another one stop and then rode into town.

After 423 kilometers I was finally at 6 PM in Conception and checked in at the Palace Hotel. I first tried to find a hotel over the internet for my next stop. This did not work, and tomorrow I will therefore drive to the next town hoping there is a free hotel. The internet is indeed slow.

I went to eat at the hotel restaurant and then some internet and then sleep.

Initial publication: 05 maart 2017
Last update: 28 oktober 2017
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