Los Mielistas

We’re having a great time in Salta –
We’ve been visiting the city which is as big as Geneva on Monday - and on Tuesday we have been to Cachi which is a beautiful village at 3600 m. in the pre-Andes. Our guide and driver Horacio was chewing coca leaves all day long which gave a stong smell in the car…a mix of diet coke and mint… He drove very safely though so weren’t not too worried! We really enjoyed the route to Cachi, part of which is the "camino de los Incas" through whicih the Incas walked down from Cusco (Peru) to the South of Santiago de Chile from the 13th to the 16th century.
The mountains are amazing with red and green colors which are caused by the concentration of iron and copper. We also visited the cactus nacional park and had alot of fun with the cactus as you can see in the pictures above!
Today we had a new guide, Federico, who took us to HUMAHUACA and to JUJUY. On the way we met some guanacos (Argentinian lamas). We actually had some for lunch …! Claire is feeling guilty now that she sees the picture...
People here call us “los mielistas” – the honeymooners!! Everyone is very friendly with each other and we really sense that people grow up with a sense of community, unlike in Europe or in the US.

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