Pomaire

Last weekend Chase and I decided to go to Pomaire, a place know for their empanadas and pottery. We woke up Saturday morning and headed to the Metro station which took us to a new bus station that we had not been to Estacion San Bajo. From the train station we took a bus or atleast the guy told us the bus was going to Pomaire. About an hour and forty-five minutes in the ride the bus driver yells out Pomaire so we off on the side of a small highway. It feels like Chase and I are always in these situations of wondering if we should try to walk, hail a cab or wait for the bus. We decided to walk. We made a a good distance but then realized we had no idea how far it was. Right when we were about to walk back to the bus stop a collectivo past. We quickly decided this was the best option and took it into Pomaire.

The walk was beautiful down this tree lined road, and it sounded amazing.

Pomaire, was very different then we were expecting. There were only two main roads one going into town and one going out. The streets were a bit dirty and every shop sold pretty much the same things, it felt a little bit like Mexico.

The main street going into town.

I did enjoy walking around but Chase was absolutely miserable. Even thought I thought it was fun to see the pottery it would definitely no be high on my list of places to send people.

Guy on the street making pottery

Chase putting on a smile for me

They seemed to have an odd obsession with pigs, about everything had a pig on it

Chase with a large pig, that I have no idea what you would do with

A typical shop

After walking around we worked up a big appetite but had a hard time find a place to eat because as you all know I am a little picky. In my defense it was not due to the menu but because everything looked so dirty. We finally settled on a empanada place.

A terrible picture but shows the place where we ate.

I really wanted to find something to buy and I finally settled on hunting for a nativity scene. The couple I found were really expensive, so I was determined to find one in my price range. I finally found one in a small shop.

I finally found one!

Getting home was a little difficult because we could not get a straight answer from anyone. Everyone kept telling us that the buses were in this one area and for such a small town we could never find them. So we decided to walk back to the were the bus dropped us off. We always seems to make the wrong decision