For the next few hours we just drove around.
This is the same complex that I photographed a couple of days ago, only taken from the opposite direction and given a bit of guidebook saturation.
There was one particular view of two farmhouses I remembered clearly from 2008 which we hadn't seen on either day. I'd assumed the buildings had probably been completely demolished years ago, so I was delighted when we suddenly came across the same view - and I'm pretty sure I stopped in the same lay-by as they were few and far between.
What a terrible place to erect a mast - I remember when we had a helicopter ride over Victoria Falls we saw masts disguised as trees, maybe they should do that here (actually there was also a whole string of telephone poles/wires on the horizon, but I cloned them out).
I loved the contours of the land but would still like to see some different colours.
At one point we decided to get even further off the beaten track and turned onto a strade bianche, but unfortunately it wasn't particularly scenic so we turned round and retraced our steps. Just before we re-joined the tarmac road Ian noticed a lovely cemetery; it was so beautiful and colourful, even though on closer inspection most of the flowers were plastic.
This Celosia cristata was most definitely real and I quite fancy growing some next year, so I waggled the flower head around and collected a few seeds.
There were a couple of other people in the grounds and I had this awful vision if me appearing on the local evening news "woman caught stealing from graveyard"
And a phone panorama to end with. As always, none of the photos has fulfilled expectations but that's because I'm too idle to get up/stay up to be in the right place, at the right time, for the right light.
We were back home late afternoon which was good as we could pack, clean the apartment and enjoy a last evening on the terrace. Tomorrow we're leaving at 0830 for the trip back to the airport and our 1250 flight.
Superb accommodation and lovely hosts and we've had a terrific few days. We'd like to revisit someday in May time for the different colours in the fields but for now all we hope is that we don't get bombarded with speeding etc. tickets.