Late last night an agency came to our hostel saying that they could get us on a tour to Cafayate, which is the one we wanted to do, but it would be only the 3 of us, a private tour with a personal driver. “Ummm whats the catch?” I thought, there really wasn't one, except for the fact that the driver/tour guide spoke no English, no biggie, this trip was more about the sites than the history anyway. We got picked up at our hostel at 7am by our personal driver ;), I could get used to that. She drove about 3.5 hours out to Cafayate a small village outside of Salta, which is the center of the province's wine industry. The drive out was absolutely stunning! It was windy roads, huge mountains and rocks everywhere, green, blue, red rocks. There were different names for the most impressive rocks such as the “Devils throat,” and massive rocks shaped like the titanic, a frog, windows, and castles.
When we got to Cafayate we ate lunch, went to 2 wineries and tried a red and white wine, cheese and llama meat and walked around the small circle for a bit and got wine ice cream for dessert. It was Cabernet ice cream, it pretty much just tasted like frozen wine, very interesting. Then we headed back toward Salta after a long day of many beautiful sites and pictures bringing our tour to an end after almost 11 hours of site seeing with our driver. Very fun! We are doing dinner tonight at the hostel then going out with some people we met here. Tomorrow at 7am we leave on an 8 hour(ish) bus ride to San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
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