5-27 My Birthday!
Slept in until 10 after the birthday celebration and did some internet stuff I needed to do while Laura slept until nearly 2pm. We then hiked to the Rio Colorado (but a bubbling creek here) and then followed it up a really cool, narrow canyon full of saguaro cacti to a couple of waterfalls. It was a beautiful hike with all the desert vegetation and the clear gurgling stream that we were constantly hopping over.
At night, we went to a parilla (grill) and I ordered a big steak for my birthday as well as some chorizo sausages and an empanada. We also shared a bottle of nice wine.
5-28
We tried our luck hitchhiking to Quilmes, an area of pre-colombian ruins. We didnt have any luck after 3 hours and eventually had to catch the first bus that went by. After we got dropped off at the dirt road, we were able to hitchhike to the ruins. We explored the ruins that were set up in a rocky desert mountain with lots of saguaros around. A nice peaceful place with nice views across to some high snow capped mountains across the valley. After visiting the ruins, we walked back to the main route and tried hitchhiking back to Cafayate. The next bus that would come would be too late to catch connect with a bus to Salta so we were really hoping for a ride. We got lucky and got picked up by a fast driving guy in a pickup truck and we were able to grab our bags in our hotel, pick up our laundry, and even grab a steak sandwich to go, and have 5 minutes to spare. We arrived into Salta close to midnight.
5-29
We went to the bus station at 7am to buy tickets for a bus to San Pedro in Chile as we had been told the buses leave at 730am. However, the bus left at 7am, so we missed out on the only bus of the day. We bought tickets for the next day and then set out to explore Salta. We took the gondola up the mountain in the town and enjoyed the views from up there of the city and the surrounding desert mountains. The best part was the outdoor weight gym up there and the spin class. Good music and funny to watch. We walked back down the mountain and checked out the old colonial era streets and main square. It was pretty hot so we had a beer in the plaza where we ran into a french girl that I knew from my hostel way back in Pucon.
In the evening we celebrated our last night in Argentina with a big parilla grill with lots of different steak cuts, chorizo, chicken, and pork. One of the beauties of traveling with a gal is that she always give me lots of food bc she can never finish it all!
Slept in until 10 after the birthday celebration and did some internet stuff I needed to do while Laura slept until nearly 2pm. We then hiked to the Rio Colorado (but a bubbling creek here) and then followed it up a really cool, narrow canyon full of saguaro cacti to a couple of waterfalls. It was a beautiful hike with all the desert vegetation and the clear gurgling stream that we were constantly hopping over.
At night, we went to a parilla (grill) and I ordered a big steak for my birthday as well as some chorizo sausages and an empanada. We also shared a bottle of nice wine.
5-28
We tried our luck hitchhiking to Quilmes, an area of pre-colombian ruins. We didnt have any luck after 3 hours and eventually had to catch the first bus that went by. After we got dropped off at the dirt road, we were able to hitchhike to the ruins. We explored the ruins that were set up in a rocky desert mountain with lots of saguaros around. A nice peaceful place with nice views across to some high snow capped mountains across the valley. After visiting the ruins, we walked back to the main route and tried hitchhiking back to Cafayate. The next bus that would come would be too late to catch connect with a bus to Salta so we were really hoping for a ride. We got lucky and got picked up by a fast driving guy in a pickup truck and we were able to grab our bags in our hotel, pick up our laundry, and even grab a steak sandwich to go, and have 5 minutes to spare. We arrived into Salta close to midnight.
5-29
We went to the bus station at 7am to buy tickets for a bus to San Pedro in Chile as we had been told the buses leave at 730am. However, the bus left at 7am, so we missed out on the only bus of the day. We bought tickets for the next day and then set out to explore Salta. We took the gondola up the mountain in the town and enjoyed the views from up there of the city and the surrounding desert mountains. The best part was the outdoor weight gym up there and the spin class. Good music and funny to watch. We walked back down the mountain and checked out the old colonial era streets and main square. It was pretty hot so we had a beer in the plaza where we ran into a french girl that I knew from my hostel way back in Pucon.
In the evening we celebrated our last night in Argentina with a big parilla grill with lots of different steak cuts, chorizo, chicken, and pork. One of the beauties of traveling with a gal is that she always give me lots of food bc she can never finish it all!
No comments:
Post a Comment