Over the top and back to the desert at Andalgala.
Amazingly only one days cycling changes the scenery from the Jungas to this.The valley below was desert and a huge salt flat. A little further down the valley Olive groves stretched for about 130km, irrigated with water from these mountains.
As usual our destination lies at the end of a very long road, it's just we don't usually see it stretching out before us.The drop was about 900m down a very bumpy road with more switchbacks than we care to remember.
The wheels were getting so hot we'd have to stop and pour our valuable drinking water over them at every turn!
Choosing some music to disguise the crunching noises on the descent!
The roads in this area of Argentina are scattered with these little 'shrines' to a character called 'Guachito Gil'.He was a 19th century South American Robin Hood and had a friend named Poco Juan!
People now go to the shrine and make a wish, if the wish is granted by Gil they tie a red ribbon or flag to the tree or shrine.
