Hostel Internacional El Balcon Cafayate

... mbiensur lhoraire convenu nexiste pas la jeudi, je prendrai dc le bus un peu plus tard ds la journee du lendemain... et la derniere moi un gars me tape la discute en francais, cets un artisan du coin qui est originaire duruguaym qui a vecu a clermt ferramd peta montpelleier et 2 ans en irlande, il a trop envie de parler francais, on finira par passer la soiree esb avec les autres artisans et mon amie argnetine alicia qui est egalemt ma colocatire de chambre...<br>super soiree au coeur du local

... I was so exicited NOT Carla and I made bacon and egg sandwhiches for our lunch and we were off. Yep back on the bus we had arrived on the day before with our bikes, travelled on the bus 50km out of town up hills down hills in the desert (hope you are getting the picture here) at the 50km mark we hopped off the bus with our bikes and the bus carried on. <br><br>Oh well Monty says to late now this is it and we were off. So we started to ...

... to rise from Mendoza up but has hit a new high here of 37 degrees - come on tan! Therefore, we thought we deserved the bottle or two that we had that day!<br><br>Next we hired bikes and headed to the mountains. We had heard that there was a waterfall up there but couldn´t believe it as virtually every river has dried up. Nevertheless we started our climb in 34 degrees! The river was a puddle! You win some and you loose some - this was still a winner ...

... guide&#8221; mad me poo my pants with some terrifying ghost stories, half of them true and half for his own entertainment.. Then we made our sad goodbye and headed to Salta and the boarder to Bolivia. It felt like I was leaving Loas and entering China again. I really didn't want to go. Argentina felt like home and filled with such warm, amazingly friendly people who will try to help you in whatever way they can!<br><br>Its in a close running with Loas and ...

... roads when we were doing a lot more then 69kmph! <br><br>Being stopped by the police cost us valuable time, but we got the car back just in time and sucessfully argued with the woman from the car company that as the car was in the garage overnight and as ´we were forced to spend an extra night in Cafayate` we shouldnt have to pay for 3 days car hire, but only 2! hurrah! So in the end it only cost 15 quid each for the 3 days car hire - bargain! and it was a great road trip!

... fermé demain premier mai, nous avons décidé d'aller toute suite au musée archéologique. Impressionnant ! Une équipe de chercheurs péruviens, argentins, chiliens et américains ont découvert en 1999 un tombeau avec une fille de six ans , et une de 15 avec un garçon de six ans et demi de l'époque des Incas. Parfaitement conservés car ils étaient enterrés dans un milieu aseptisé dans la montagne et congelé à cause du dur climat ...

... a single portion of white amounted to half a bottle (this high-wine-score was equally balanced on the oth** side by the Chicken Milanesa which was more like breaded grissle than breaded meat). And that marked the end of our stay in Cafayate - short as it's indigenous inhabitants and sweet as it's white wine.<br><br>The weath** on the way back was beautiful; the sun had managed to finally break through the clouds and the Quebrada de Cafayate revealed itself in all it's colourful ...

... middle. The trail crossed the river several times where we were able to cool off. After about 2hrs we made it to the waterfall. It was about 10 meters tall and had quiet a lot of water streaming down. The water was freezing though so it was a quick in, stand under the fall get a picture and get out! Besides Dave almost scraping his toe off (yes we were wearing thongs) we made it back safely. We ended up ...

... notre vendeur de vélos. C'est finalement après 19km et l'ascension d'un petit col montagneux que nous arrivons à la pancarte "Punilla" à partir de laquelle les instructions pour arriver aux sites de la Quebrada commencent. Aprés avoir quitté la route selon les indications, nous découvrons "Las Ventanas", un ouverture naturelle dans un rocher qui donne une vue sur la vallée en contre-bas. Nous continuons pour arriver 1 km plus loin à "Los Castillos", un falaise ...

... a gate open to the fields of grapevines, so we decided to push our luck and see if we were able to find a nice spot in the vineyards, without getting killed by a security guard or a gang of snarling guard dogs! <br><br>We whizzed back through the gates and strangely enough the fields were absolutely deserted, so we found a nice spot under an oak tree with great views ...