After leaving La Rioja and the superb National Parks, we made our way up Argentina to Tucuman (where everyone you meet wants to talk about rugby and the injuries they have sustained from the game), Cafayate (which is a stunning little town with a laid back feeling) and finally arriving in Salta (very ethnic Argentinian city).
Not much to report about Tucuman apart from getting our stinky laundry done, well actually the lady mentioned that Chris´ washing was "poo" and mine was ok...there was no disagreements from Julie.
Cafayate was a little gem and a great place for us to relax and unwind...or so we thought. After arriving Chris got chatting to others in the hostel and hooked up a trip to the local waterfall outside of town. We went along with a german cyclist who was resting up in Cafayate and two Argentinian women travelling up on their own. We all left enthusiastically and lets just point out that there was NO marked tracks, the instructions were to follow the stream up for 2 hours until you get to the waterfall. After stumbling over rocks and getting cut through pampas grass, but all set in a stunning landscape of cacti and red rock formations, we gave up our hunt for the 10m waterfall after 1 1/2 hours. On the way back in the heat, in true NZ styles, Chris was the only one to take the plunge into an icy pool much to the delight of the others.
After all the fun of the walk, the heat of the day and the 6km walk back into town nearly took 2 victims of heat exhaustion and dehydration, it had to be 30 plus. Here we were sweltering in the heat and locals were biking past in their polarfleeces and winter gear - um yeah - spot the tourists with their tops wrapped on their heads and cowering under the shade for relief!!
It was hard to leave Cafayate and we werent looking forward to another big city going to Salta. We arrived weary at the hostel about 10pm and were immediately offered a BBQ, traditional music and dancing...our spirits lifted immediately! We may have dreamt about steak due to the amount consumed but it was a nice welcome to Salta.
We are making our way to Bolivia in the next couple of days and will be off on a 4 day tour of the Salar de Uyuni (salt flats) which will be amazing.
Not sure when our next post will be but watch this space!
5 comments:
Tarzan really is alive! Where are those sunglasses? The glare the glare! Lots of love from us to you's.
yea real nice food chirs!
haha rachels emails rmm129@student.canterbury.ac.nz
just for the heads up haha
yay pressies!
have fun and yeeee i can imagine ur washing stunk i mean living with u for how many years and having to deal with the smell of ur feet haha
xx
sarah and rachel
Hi guys
How's it going? Your pictures are awesome. We are all curious to know if you are carrying a spare photographer with you or just picking on some trustworthy person to take the pics of you guys. Anyway Chris, today we had our Business Development Plan, planning day and I did take a photo of the food for you, however can't attach to here, so may at some stage send it to your hotmail. We saw it all and instantly asked Bruce if he was thinking of you when he ordered it!! Talk about a luncheon banquet. The office is sooooo quite without you :( . Did you know that the All Blacks absolutely killed the French on the field big time. Take care you guys from us here (working hard) Sharon
sup brown-sac its too late now, iv got rachels email address hahaaha!
hope you guys are havin a good one!
Salter
Lol You funny f**ker I'll eat ya f**kin eyeballs you f**k wit me again
Cheers the real Salter
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