We left the monastery at Fuenterroble de Salvatierra this morning early, because we wanted to get a jump on this 28 km day. Unfortunately, this area is very badly marked. We ended up walking 2 km's past where we should have turned onto a path. We only new, when we came to a little town and a man asked if we were perigrino's. When we said Si!, he told us that we need to go back 2 km's and turn. We walked back to the spot, but there were no arrows there at all. We took it anyway and ran into arrows further down the track. Thus adding 4 km's to our day. We also had to endure a 300 meter rise in elevation, which today brought us to the highest point on the via de la plata. I hope that the pictures do the views justice. The hardest part of the day, was walking down the rocky hill path to the roadway. Walking on the road the final 12 km's in the afternoon heat seemed to take forever. We lived on apples and orange juice from our backpacks today, as there were no towns in the 28 km stretch. Can't wait to see if there is a decent pilgrims menu tonight. Tomorrow the big city of Salamanca. Have a look at today's pics. Terry
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