Cafayate & Salta
Cafayate is a small town to the north, between Mendoza and Salta. There we had some more wine tasting. and did a half day trekking in the mountains. We basically followed the river up to a waterfall. We had to cross the river about 15 times and it meant that some places we had to get wet. In the beginning I managed to stay more or less dry by jumping from stone but soon I found out it was pointless and just walked across the river in my shoes. Our guide was about 70 years old and was running up and down steep hills and treachous terrain with big cacti like a mountain goat. The waterfall was nice and the brave people had a dip in the freezing cold water. Then we walked the same way back. At the end of the trail there were lots of bushes that have been burned, and we asked why. "to kill the tarantulas" was the answer.Off we then went to Salta. Stayed at a nice hostel and did a nice daytrip to the Salt Flats (See photo - can you see who is on my head?).The salt flats are in the so called alti plano and the highest point we drove to get there was about 4100m. we drove allmost parallel to the railwayline of the "Train to the Clouds" a famous train ride thru a spectacular terrain. The train itself has not been working for three years because of little or no maintainance due to no funding.
But it is due to start again in April this year. It was on my top five list to do in South America (the other four were wine related;) so I was a bit dissapointed. Anyway, Salta is a nice city and the last day we took a cable car up to a top of a hill and then walked back. Nice view but the steps were over 1500 so we were quite tired as we got to the bus station to take the night train to Buenos Aires.
Next: Farewell South America :( ....hello South Africa :)
posted by Nonni @ 4:09 e.h.
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