Here is a list of my favorite aspects of the trip, not in any specific order:
1. We saw the most beautiful lightning storm I have ever seen. Because we were in a tiny town there was no light pollution so we could see the lightning bolts so clearly. There was lightening for about an hour before it started raining and we just sat outside watching the lightening. I have never seen anything like that in my life.
2. I ate llama, it was delicious... (this one is just cute)
3. The colors in the mountains.
all of the mountains looked like this with tons of colors, driving through this province was beautiful.
4. the salt flats, although there were sort of brown because its a very windy time of year, they were still very impressive
5. I went to the highest altitude I have ever been at: 4170 meters (which is 13,681.102), it was super cold up there and we had to chew a lot of coca leaf to not get a headache but it was beautiful.
6. We saw some archeological sites which old graves and nice cacti
7. We saw lots of live music, danced a lot. There was this one instrument that was insane, it made a very low droning noise
8. We went on this beautiful hike, some of the mountains literally looked like they were from mars or something.
Those were just some highlights of a wonderful wonderful trip. I am leaving again this thursday to go to a city called mendoza where I am meeting my friend ben master. it will definitely be another beautiful adventure...
Sarah,
ReplyDeleteI really loved the pictures on Facebook as well. The mixture of colors, textures & vegetation were amazing. What were the squares of salt (?) that you were sitting in between? I'm glad to see there were some pictures of you along with your friends. Were all of the mountains made of salt, or just the pinkish ones?
XOXO,
mom