The second day was better, we were going to stay around for another night so were in no rush to do anything major, just need to buy some food like bread and fruit and water. Dries walked off to Horćon, it was about 4/5km from where we were camped, he was gone for about three hours and only came back with some bread. I went off to Pisco Elqui to get some water and fruit, I walked for about fifteen minutes and was picked up and dropped off right next to the shop that had fruit. I went off to get some water from the tap of drinking water in the toilet in the main square, underneath the artisan market shop. I went off trying to hitch hike back to the bridge but had no luck, I ended up walking back the full 4km to where we were. I had chosen to go later once the sun had gone behind the mountains where as Dries had gone nearer the scorching midday sun, and that is a killer.
This place would have been so good whilst drunk, with a bottle of pisco or a few litres of beer between the both of us, we had neither, just water and crap food. This time I didn't make the disgusting pasta, I trialled making some past with cream of corn soup together, saves having to pour away the water and making a sauce, it was like two meals in one, my lunch time trial was a disaster but I knew if I put more effort into it, it would have made me a most perfect of camp site dinners. It was good, very good, well not that good but considering the circumstances it was more than adequate and I had made far too much so had more than I needed so it was good all round as Dries had the left overs. We had a big fire this time, but we were both really tired so had another early night, I was really not looking forward to going to sleep as I now knew how uncomfortable and off putting it was. I went and I have to say didn't sleep a single wink, I may have got a maximum of about an hours sleep the whole night but that came in minutes at a time or at most about five minutes of uninterrupted sleep, then my body telling me it was too uncomfortable and needed moving to a more comfortable position if there was any, but no there wasn't.