Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Desert trekking

Jo and Rosemary on the salt plain

Going over the pass at 4895m

Nico and Rosemary go exploring in a canyon


are we lost?



A big cactus.



When we were in Salta, northern Argentina, we hired a man called Nico and his 4WD and he took us off into the desert for an adventure.

We went up canyons, over a pass that was 4895m high, through the desert, past loads of cactus plants...did you know that they don't flower until they are 50 years old? We saw a 7 coloured mountain, which was kinda cool and lots of condors.
The highlight for me was the salt plain. Really interesting patterns that the salt makes, and it was really salty. No wonder Argentinians like salt on their food, they have plenty of it.

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