Many of the riding squares in Gazluk are not granting experience. When equiped with a set of reins that shows the check mark when you've completed a square, it will already show that experience has been gained in many squares. Even if it's a character's first time ever being in the zone, and all of the fog is present.
I believe these squares are sharing a check off map with a previous zone. It's too hard for me to guess which zone it would be, but it's definitely not Vidaria, or Povus, as those zones weren't accessed on the character I ran into this error.