G surveying the Quilmers ruins

Ice Cream flavour of the week....

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June 25th 2011
Arrived in Cafayate after another picturesque journey through the mountains - only issue for me was that Gordon had calculated it would take 2.5 hours (it took 5.5 hours) and we had no food for the journey! Cafayate is quite a small town surrounded by mountains. Our hostel was refreshingly clean after the last two and we had a nice double bedroom, with shared bathroom (but nobody else in the b ... read more

South America » Argentina » Salta » Cafayate

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more