Cafayate

Saturday 13th November

Our hostal, Ruta 40 ( it is on Ruta 40 which goes way south in Argentina) has a sign outside KM4132. That is the distance to Ushuaia on Tierra del Fuego. Cafayate is quite an upmarket sort of place with no shoe shine boys and 1 beggar. We took a walk out of town to a hill mirador (viewpoint). On the way we met some men digging a hole. Of course I asked if it was for the mother in law, which they though was very funny, but no, it was for a cow they were going to cook with hot timbers and then covered up. It would be ready the next day.

There was a vintage car rally in town. Lots of really old cars in fantastic condition.

Sunday 14th November

We took a taxi for the 7 kms out to a camp site and the river Colorado and, just like Lise and Steffen said, a guide appeared and took us on the gorge climb. It was very hard work and I gave up after 1 hour and 40 minutes. Ianne went off with the guide and came back 90 minutes later having reached the waterfalls.

We were too tired to walk back so the guide got us a lift with a young couple from Salta in their car. Nice people. We had lunch in the town square at 16.30 and pottered about until bed time.

Monday 15th November

We wandered round town and bought more presents. Now we have presents for everybody and can relax a little. We bought a big bag in Bolivia just for presents and now it is not big enough. We cannot get a bus directly to Cordoba from Cafayate, we have to go via San Miguel de Tucuman so we caught the bus at 14.00 and arrived promply at 19.00. There was a fantastic green gorge for lots of miles on the way down but I didn´t catch the name.

We are now experts at passing time at Bus Terminii so we had a very greasy dinner and then made the time pass until 23.00 for our bus to Cordoba.