Greetings from Cafayate, in the northern province of Salta. I am very sorry i have no photos to upload for you today. Today i took over 100 spectacular photos but alas the computer at our hotel has a floppy disk drive and no usb port. maybe next time i can go back and add. this morning we checked out of our dogdy youth hostel room and got our rental car. we hit the road south taking a route completely unknown to us. we had an amazing road trip today. it was awesome. the scenery here is breathtaking. we drove though the [View Full Entry]

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Hello! We ended up in Cafayate for 6 days, not sure how that happened, the time just flew! We head north to Salta tomorrow but while we are at a PC that we know uploads photos thought we should detail our big break into Argentinian TV! We were asked to take part in filming for a TV show (the details of which were sketchy, by which I mean "in Spanish" and therefore unintelligible to our rubbish ears!). However it was a lot of fun and quite surreal... Love you all S and Ed [View Full Entry]

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Oh Cafayete! What can we say? The asado´s were delicious, the wine was divine and the people were welcoming. The only unfortunate thing was that this was the point where our "family" had gone separate ways so were by ourselves again. Luckily, we still had one member with us. On the first day, we were greeted by the friendly family who owned the hostel. Little did we know, there are a lot more things to do in Cafayete than we thought. After being overwhelmed with the list the hostel had given us, we decided to look things over while eating emapanadas. [View Full Entry]

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The ride to Cafayate was beautiful! The red desert and strange huge rocks of the Andean foothills were inspiring! Pablo and I spent the entire ride staring out the windows happy to have a chance to see this unique landscape. In Cafayate we checked into our hostel, one recommended by a few travelers we've met along the way, and were very happy with it - it was bright, airy, and homey with a beautiful view from the roof and our own bedroom instead of dorm bunk beds. Pablo, still sick, rested a bit, then we made our way to the hospital [View Full Entry]

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A short drive to Cafayate and we arrived at a big campsite which we pretty much had to ourselves. We spent the day walking around the town, which was pretty nice, small but pretty. The first night was typically spent on camp, as we had a lot of booze to get through and the town didn't have many pubs. We cooked some great food, and made a huge vat of mulled wine. It was another really good campsite night, finishing at a silly hour. We were up early the next day to hire Mountain bikes and cycle to a number of [View Full Entry]

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This entry will be short since words cannot do justice to the beauty of Cafayate. In short: WOW, WOW & WOW! We arrived at night after a long day of travels. Be warned if you are going from Valle de Fertil, it is a long trek to Cafayate. First we had to bus to La Rioja then Catamarca then Amancha de Valle then finally to Cafayate. Luckily, in the small town of Amancha de Valle there is a delicious restaurant across from the ¨bus station¨. It was really off the ¨gringo trail¨ and it was amazing, we got to know the [View Full Entry]

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So I´m still here! Cafayate has just been too awesome to leave. Sadly I bought a plane ticket 5 minutes ago to go to Iguazu tommorow morning, so I need to catch the 5 am bus to Salta tommorow morning. So recap. Danny has pretty much been my best friend since I got here. I mentioned the wine tours... well many more wine tours.. wine ice cream, more empanadas, and too much tasty stuff. I´m going on a diet!! So we went to the waterfalls, a nice 5 hour hike that included substantial climbing on slippery rocks, and crossing the river [View Full Entry]

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We left Tucuman city after 2 nights, with our tourist map in hand and Jake behind the wheel of our Chevrolet Corsa rental car. (I only know the model because a cop stopped us and asked that on the first day! I just said 'somos turistas´and he let us proceed). From the city, we followed the ´Circuito Valles Calchaquies´through Tucuman province, passed through Salta province and ultimately reached San Salvador de Jujuy, where we returned the car. We had fun driving on the open road and getting to experience a different side of Argentina. There is a strong indigenous influence here, [View Full Entry]

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just testing [View Full Entry]

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Well I can´t believe where i am or how its possible i ended up here. PS: Thanks Martin!! To confess, despite the beauty and wonder of salta, I felt a little lonely and sad for reason I won´t detail. However, I met a generous soul, Martin, who worked at my hostel. We pretty much spent every day together doing basically not much, and playing jenga in the night. We even went to see a movie and it was great fun. Thanks Martin!!! so I boarded the late night bus to cafeyate. i arrived around midnight in this town and as I [View Full Entry]

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