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Well, I head out of Salta tomorrow after about 8 days. It's been great- beautiful little city. I've been staying with Audra, Alvaro, and little Greggy who have gone WAY out of their way to be unbelievably hospitable. I have been gorging myself with fantastic Argentinian food, and have had several good nights with Alvaro's huge family. Their house is gorgeous and has views to die for-- very relaxing! In the mean time, I got to know Salta pretty well, and took two trips to Cafayate and Cachi.
Cafayate is a little town South West of Salta (known for its wine), about a 3 hour drive. To get there you go through Las Chonchas Gorge, which looks a bit like a combination between Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Obviously it's size doesn't match the grand canyon, however, the layers and subsequent multiple colors in the gorge are remarkable. We stopped to play with some llamas, then visited a couple wineries before having lunch in town. A cool thing about this town (that Audra and Alvaro told me) is that the bank looks very out-of-place because it was actually designed for the alpine town of Calafate in Patagonia, but they got the plans mixed up, and the towns' respective banks are switched with each other. On the way back we stopped in a natural amphitheater and listened to a guitarist, followed by a climb up the next little mini-canyon off the big one.
Cachi was even more impressive. You start out driving through the rainforest around Salta, and within ten minutes you seeing cacti all around you. As you climb, you drive through the clouds to a peak height of 3350 meters. You are quite literally standing in the clouds as they roll by, with green hills all around. Cachi was a great little town, very quiet, with a killer (no pun intended) cemetery on the top of a hill-- gorgeous views and extremely unique graves.
Tomorrow I'm on a 19 hour bus ride to Mendoza for some more wine!
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