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or even get sand in your shoes without going watch mud and straw bricks being made by
through a hotel lobby. We weren’t impressed hand by workers toiling in the glaring sun. We
and climbed back on the bus, grateful to be checked that one off our bucket list.
getting out of town. We spent about a half-hour in Malpica, the
To get to the mountains, we traveled first of the colonial villages and home to some
through miles of rich farmland where crops 600 residents. The draw here was baked goods
range from coffee and citrus to mangos, cooked in large wood-burning ovens tucked
avocados, papayas, and bananas. But before behind the houses. Most everyone on the bus
leaving this agricultural plain, our bus made purchased a few baked items for the road. Two
another unscheduled stop so our group could more tour vans were parked on the dusty main

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