From Talca I went up north to Santiago, Chile´s capital. Other than taking a walking tour of the city, and watching drunken British folks, I didn{t do much there. I decided to go further north to La Serena, to visit a pinguin colony nearby of the nearly extinct Humboldt Penguins, however the sea was angry that day, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli. Instead I visited the town museum, where they had a Moai on display.
Moai
From La Serena I continued north to San pedro de Atacama, a dry desert area. There I went stargazing, which was amazing. A French astronomer and his wife, show the sky of the southern hemisphere´s, with great vies of the milky way, and the different constellations. I also got to see Moon Valley, one of those places, which supposedly features a ¨moonish¨ landscape.
Desert
More desert
San Pedro was my last destination in Chile, and I took the bus to Salta, Argentina, through a beautiful road passing through the Andes. From Salta I went visiting Purmamarca, a village around Cerro de los Siete Colores (the hill of seven colors), and Cachi, a pretty village, stopping on the way in Los Cardones national park. Interestingly enough, Cardones, which are the cacti that grace that region of Argentina, are nowhere to be seen in the part of the park that I visited.
Purmamarca and the hill of seven colors
Los Cardones natinal park
Cachi
From Salta I hauled ass to Mendoza, to drink and drive (a bicycle) through the wineries of Maipu. After hitting a few wineries, I was pulled over by a cop, who instead of arresting me for intoxication, mentioned that it´s getting pretty late, and the wineries are beginning to close, so I should head back now. The next day I went to see The highest mountain in the Americas, Mt. Aconcagua. It was pretty high. On the way we also stopped to see Puente del Inca, literally The Inca Bridge. This bridge has nothing really to do with Inca other than being old, just like them. It was actually naturally created by the cohesive force of calcium from the nearby thermal springs.
The south face of Aconcagua
Under Puente del Inca
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Well you South American lucky gringo bastard you - Your travels sound amazing and I am of course very jealous. Are you at all coming back to nanoing in Israel?
Don't answer that.
Keep up the good times :)
BTW - Puente del Inca is named so because it was the border of Inca lands, no?
And while in Mendoza check if the people in the parks are still grosely SHMOOPY, will you?
Israel, What happened to your world famous sympathy?
Meytal (nice to see you here!),the tour guide claimed the namesake is the fact that the Incas were the first to cross the bridge. There´s a substantial chance that he was just bullshiting.
As far as I´ve noticed, the SHMOOPY thing is not only in Mendoza, but almost everywhere here. Glad to see it´s not just me.
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