Salta of the Earth

Saturday April 19th

Today we moved on to Salta. This was a much shorter trip, although we still were up quite early for it. We started off through the Cafayette Canyon, which was very picturesque, but it was too early for most of us on the truck to appreciate it. We did get to Salta in time for lunch (after the traditional tour of the town while we tried to find the camp site), and we were able to set up our tents in the daylight, which is always good.

Some people were going horse riding, but I'm not really into that, so the rest of us went into the town of Salta. Salta is a much biger city than the others we have been in, so it required taxis from the edge of town rather than walking. Still once we got in there was a fair amount of walking around looking at the architecture. Like all South American cities the central plaza seemed to be the only place awake during siesta time, so we all headed up to yet another cable car going up to a hill overlooking the city. It passed the time, but I am beginning to get fed up with this cable car up the hill thing, its about the 6th I've done on this trip.

The city was more alive when we came down so we all went our separate ways to shop, before heading back out for another of our camping meals (which are pretty good considering we are cooking for 19 on only 4 gas rings).