Monday we went on another day long van trip, ultimately to a place called Humahuaca. To be honest, this was the worst day and was a little boring. We hit Purmamarca again, then a bunch more little desert pueblos, then finally the tiny pueblo of Humamuaca where nothing was happening. At the first pueblo, there was a small llama farm and ancient indian ruins. We were taking pictures of the llamas and one seemed to be a little bothered. Malcolm decided to cheer him up and leaned in toward the fence and said "Gimme a kiss buddy". Of course, the llama spit right in his face and the rest of us rolled around laughing for about 30 minutes. I got a video of him doing it again, I'll see what I can do about posting it. After the llamas we explored the ruins- a bunch of old adobe houses in the middle of a ton of cactus, not too exciting.
Afterward, we went to another pueblo for lunch. We ordered some stuff we'd never heard of, including llama meat. Its actually really good and tastes like barbecue smoked beef brisket. We explored the town in the 400 degree heat and sun (me and Brenny found a basketball court, but no ball), then got back in the van. On the way home we stopped at the Tropic of Capricorn. It was just a big sun dial, also not very exciting.
Tuesday was our last trip in Salta. We went to a place called Cafayate, Salta's wine country and home of the famous Malbec wine. Unfortunately my camera died at the Tropic of Capricorn so I have no pictures of my own of Cafayate. On the way there we stopped at a few cool rock formations in the desert. One was called the Devil's Throat, a huge crevice created by a waterfall years ago. We climbed over a ton of rocks to the back of the cave where an enormous wall was. The wall was on about a 60 degree angle (super super steep) and we climbed as far up as we could before getting yelled at. After we continued on to Cafayate. We went to 2 wineries for some tasting, then lunch (where nobody ate much because we were all sick again), then headed back home. Every night we just chilled in the hostel because we were tired and burnt from the sun and long car rides, so no stories there.
A few pictures from the last 2 days, click to enlarge:
A llama at the farm. This one was nice and didn't spit at anybody.
Flat Evan exploring ancient Argentine ruins!
A giant staircase and monument of Liberty I think. Between the sun and altitude I almost passed out when I got to the top. We found the bball court behind the monument.
Flat Evan at the Tropic of Capricorn!
The BC group at the giant wall in the Devil's Throat. This picture does it no justice as far as size or steepness goes.
This one does. If you look closely, you can see Malcolm along the left side in the green tshirt. The thing was huge.
A vineyard in Cafayate. The rest of our pictures from here are just us standing around sipping wine. I figured this was better.
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