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DRUNKS AND THIEVES
Off after breakfast for a long drive to Cachi. Through the gorge and then heading out towards Salta where we picked up Epenadas - chicken, beef and cheese. These are baby pasties filled with various fillings and dipped in to hot chili sauce. We then drove off to find a picnic site. On entering the site we were approached by a drunk …
Smooth criminal (well cosy anyhow)
... acting range in the film the Rundown. Mmmm, weird, but i thought they just really liked the Rock. The lad comes back empty handed. I then twig that something is not quite hunky dory here. Then the bloke comes back with his footy mates obviously having just played a Sunday league match. He starts talking to me and after a few tries i get that my sleeping has been nicked from the washing line. Oh dear. He says he will go into Salta and buy me a new one, but this is ...
Argentina: Land of the Big Steaks
... totally night and day experience from Bolivia. One of my favorite momements was when are guide Marco a 3rd generation gauche taught as how to throw a lazo having tommy boy run then catching his back foot with the lazo putting him flat on the ground was classic.
The secound best part was the massive Asado feast ...
The hard road to Cachi
We set off at 8am to Cachi as we were told it was a four hour journey. We drove south out of the city and after a while turned west and up a valley. The road went through a narrow gorge and over a rickety bridge then wound its way up a valley and up and up and eventually over a pass. We lost count of the number of hairpin bends and spectacular views.
The summit revealed a wonderful panorama of snow clad hills to the west, whilst the foreground was spotted ...
From Cachi to Iguazu
... the birds. We didn’t have a clue what they were, but they were big and colourful. The highlight though was a self guided walk through the wetlands where we came face to face with capibyras and I was chased by a wetland fox which when it caught me it curled up on its back at my feet. It was a pet from the local ranger station. The journey out of the wetlands was the worst conditions we have met so far. The ...