Day 162 The walk around Rantepao

We got up a little later than we should have and headed out on an adventure. Got a Bemo(public van or 4wd) to the main bus terminal where we waited for 2hours for the next shared taxi to fill and set off finally at 11:30. The road was dam rough as per usual so the hour long trip just took us maybe 15km up the hill we would later walk down. From Lempo we walked past some great scenery with bright green rice terraces to Batutumonga where we should have stopped for lunch but kept walking through to Lokomata where we saw a huge rock with loads of family graves carved in to it. After cursing the LP not for the first time, for suggesting this route and a shortcut we never found even with local help we made it to Pana down the hill with many graves in a rock face and some baby graves in a tree above. Then it was another 5km down to Tikala where we decided it was time for a coke and something to keep us going to get a Bemo home and we passed some lovely villages, more fantastic scenery but when we got there, there were no Bemos and very little traffic at all passed us as we kept walking another hour towards home till we flagged a push bike taxi who accepted the task for 10,000IDR so we weren't that far out when a bus and two taxis went by also! We must have walked 20km on today's travels.