After breakfast the man dropped 
us off at a point in the road where the vehicles must drive slower due to lots of speed bumps in the road. We stood there, in the suffocating heat for a long time, praying and trusting for a lift to the next town. We got a lift on the back of a pickup truck to Mapa where we were dropped at a t-junction. After about 20 minutes we got a lift to a small café a few miles on. 
We drank a cool drink and tried to hitch a ride once again. A man in a small Jeep and another car accompanying the Jeep gave us a lift and dropped us off under a 
bridge as it was raining.
We sat there under the bridge, in the middle of nowhere in the rain… Herman (who sat in front with the man in the Jeep) told us that the man is not only a Christian, but also a pastor 
and that he gave us his email address. When the situation to catch a lift started looking hopeless and I started worrying that we might have to pitch our tents under a bridge the Jeep returned. The pastor and his daughter picked us up and took us for (a very late) lunch. They offered their home and we got to spend the night comfortably in an air-conditioned room –and not in our tents in the 
middle of nowhere! Later the night we all sat outside and had dinner together. The people are amazing and are really good to us!
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