Wild Waters - Fancy a Dip?

A really red river coloured by all the surrounding minerals, particularly clay and iron. Rafting here would be more like red-water rafting rather than white.

Argentina's Monument Valley

This is Argentina's very own Monument Valley, interesting shapes formed by years of wind and rain erosion.

Rock Formations

Labelled imaginatively with the names of the things they resemble, these striking rocks have been eroded over the millenia by wind and rain. The one on the left is the 'Sinking Titanic' and on the right, the ´Castles'.

Cafayate Gorge

This landscape is a delicious feast of colour : chocolate-coloured mountains, raspberry-ripple strata, pistachio and treacle peaks and rhubarb and cream, all on a burnt treacle platter.


We think this sign means, "If you look without seeing, the ground will seem no more than just the ground." (Our interpretation : look beyond...see the beauty and intelligence in Nature)

Quebrada de las Conchas (Gorge of Shells)

Heading south from Salta to Cafayate, we drove through this amazing stretch of road following the longest river in Argentina that flows into the Atlantic Ocean north of Buenos Aires.