Cafayate - Argentina

Cafayate is some of the wine country in Argentina. Surprising really since it is really dry and dusty. This was the reason though that we were heading there for a couple of nights. In the bus station in the previous city we bumped into Rebecca (NZ chick who has been living in Sydney for ages), who we had met on two other occasions. And she was booked onto the same bus for some muchas vinos (much vine). The scenery (if you could bother taking it in, around some windy roads - abit tough for me) was lovely, and there are actually tours from Salta (previous city) that come this way for day trips. On arrival, whilst having one or two refreshing beers, we also met Richard (African/English/Aussie/ and now in NZ), whom we ended up only spending a day and night in this town, but ended up spending about the next 10 days with him. The four of us did a 5 hour trek which was really pleasant. We hadn´t done anything like this for ages, due to Ian´s back issues. There was some rock climbing involved, and our destination was an icy waterfall. Couldn´t bring myself to take a swim. It was soooo cold it hurt! The others though put themselves through it! We had a random surprise of a bunch of teenagers who were cooking up some great looking sausages, who shared them with us. We hired mountain bikes with the intention of riding around some of the wineries for some tastings. Even a spot of lunch would have been great. We made a couple of mistakes which ended up in riding mostly uphill for 2 hours (to the supposed best one), which was not serving food, (as it did this usually by reservation only, we discovered), but it wasn´t open for a couple of weeks. We only had enough time to ride back into town, and eat in a restaurant, before having to catch the bus to our next destination. So we had to settle with a bottle of red over lunch - just not from one of the many wineries. Shame!