Back to the holiday Part 2

So, where was I? Ah yes, in Salta.

Well on Thursday we travelled down to Cafayate (pronounced ca-fa-sha-teh) on the bus, comfortable enough, with a brief stop on the way. We went through the Quebrada de Cafayate, which was beautiful and which we revisited the next day on a tour. Cafayate is a small town surrounded by vineyards and we had some wonderful wine.

As you know I only drink white wine and Argentina is not world famous for its white wine. I found out why recently: it seems that white wine is less robust and therefore more likely to be 'damaged' when travelling. Hence it doesn't really get exported. Well, all I can say it thank god for that! More for me. I haven't had a bad glass of wine since I've been here, in fact the experiences have gone from 'Mmm that's good' to 'Have I died and gone to heaven?'

Erm...anyway, the next day we did the tour, ten of us in a four-wheel drive type thing (no photos this time). This is when I got to feed the llama and took these photos.



Before you ask, I haven't doctored the photos as such, all I've done is darken them to bring out all the different colours. It was extremely hot and windy. There was little or no cloud in the sky and my darling little digi-camera couldn't cope with the extremely bright light. It is wonderfully beautiful there and reminded me of Petra. The hills and mountains have so many different layers of rock and in so many colours. I took many more and I'm going to try to load them into my flickr account for all to see (but that will have to wait for the weekend).

Enjoy!