Los Cardones

Los Cardones surf camp, ...

... y Cachi My second tour would take me west (the first tour was south of Salta) over the mountains and through the Parque Nacional Los Cardones to the small town of Cachi.  It was a gorgeous day that provided scenery that was quite distinct from what I ...

The last three days I was in a 4 X 4 on a trekking excursion in Las Cordones National Park with a local guide Federico Norte and some nice people from Denver. We did several hours of hiking/bouldering every day and saw condors, armadillos, ...

... of tourists. Our first full day we spent shopping and organizing ourselves for the next part of the trip.  The hostel we stayed in (Los Cardones) was great and also had a BBQ so we bought steak and salad and cooked a feast, it was sooo nice to eat ...

... . Was für ein Glück für Frank, dass er deutsch sprechen konnte ;-) Unsere Fahrt führte am Parque National 'Los Cardones' vorbei. Cardones bedeutet Kaktus und wie sich das für zwei echte Kaktusfans gehört, konnten wir uns an der Landschaft nicht ...

... Valley, kde jsme oped mohli obdivovat ruzne baravne okolni hory. Z Piedra del Molino silnice pozvolna klesala a vedla narodnim parkem Los Cardones, ktery domuniji vysoke rozvetvene kaktusy (jejich vyska je az 6 metru a jsou stare at 400 let, jelikoz ...

... then zig-zagged our way up through verdant green foothills to get a glimpse into the cloud-covered valley below before arriving at Los Cardones National Park.  At Los Cardones, we stopped off to gape at the thousands of cacti stretching as far as ...