So the weather report for the next 5 days is at least 50% rain. After enjoying our breakfast of pie, toasted small pieces of bread with a TON of
Dulce de leche, we hit the road, not knowing for sure where we were heading. Once on the road I decided we would drive to
Cachi. What a journey this was....over 3 hours driving each way on
winding dirt/gravel roads with HUGE drop offs. Here are some photo's of our drive and of Cachi.
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| The road to Cachi |
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| The high desert just outside of Cachi |
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| Local Cachi church |
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| Argentina and Cachi flags |
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| Beth was looking for Diet Coke, but Juan Pablo II appeared to have closed some time ago! |
Watching over Cachi is the 20,800 foot
Nevado de Cachi which is just a few miles from Cachi. Not to far outside of Cachi, as we drove along the high desert we came across a local women walking in the middle of the desert, by herself at least 3 miles from the nearest town. We stopped and picked her up and gave her a ride to the next town. While we do not speak Spanish an she did not speak English we both knew how much she appreciated that we stopped and offered her a ride. This was the first, but not the last time we gave rides to people while driving around Argentina.
We arrived into Cachi just in time to have a late lunch. I chose what looked like a local place as they were cooking the meat and chicken over coals outside. We split a half chicken, salad and I had a Salta beer. The chicken is SO much better then what we get in the States. It tastes fresh, and they are not full of steroids, they were delicious!
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| On the drive back to our hotel (Cerros de Terciopelo in Rosario de Lerna) we cam across this group of goats jut roaming the high desert. |
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| Yes, our dirt/gravel road home from Cachi was somewhere below all those low clouds and fog! |
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