Cafayate Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

Cafayate is beautiful! We had planned to stay here for 2 days but it ended up being 6! You drive thorugh desert to get here and suddenly you are in the middle of a vineyard - really bizarre but so beautiful.

Needless to say we got straight back on it and headed to the local vineyards on bikes with a couple of Ozzies that we met! The local...

Siestas are a favorite in Cafayate. A normal siesta is from 1pm to 3pm.. Not in Cafayate. Siesta starts at 2pm and doesnt end until 7pm. During Siesta everything closes and everyone goes home to nap. It´s a little excessive here. But whateves. Yesterday we took the bus to San Carlos, with this awesome Aussie couple we met, in search of yet anoth...

People joked before we left NZ that I was crazy to let Mark go to Venezuela with all the past and future beauty queens. As it was, we really didn't see many attractive girls there. A lot of them were chubby and with heavily plucked eyebrows with a new higher line painted on. Never a good look in my opinion. Argentina is a different story. The gi...

From Uyuni we headed to Argentina following in the footsteps of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. The roads were really rough but the scenery was stunning. The difference between the countries was very noticeable at the border. For a start Argentina has tarmac roads and street lights! We headed for the town of Salta, which surprised me becau...

Wenn man von Salta aus weit** in den Süden fährt, vorbei an den Estancias und grossen Feld**n, dann kommt man irgendwann in die Region des Valle Chayaquíes. Eine kleine Landstrasse führt durch eine einzigartige Welt von Schluchten, ausgetrockneten Wass**fällen, riesigen Baumkakteen, schneebedeckten Andengipfeln und bizarren Felsformationen. (Nic...

Arrived ok after sleeping for most of the journey. Checked into a nice hostel and bumped into Dean again. Arranged to do a Cheese and wine tour in the morning and some trekking into cayons in the afternoon. Went out for a bite to eat. Visited two winerys, had a few samples and bought a bottle. Then onto the cheese factory. The cheese was really ...

FedEx eventually came through with the essential spare parts which Frank had despatched from Almonte, and Marcelo and his team at Taller Cuatrin designated DC3 a top priority. They dropped the transmission and replaced the oil seal with no problem, but were not totally satisfied until we had arranged for a complete engine wash followed by an ext...