Argentina &Chile --- Nov 2008 -- Day14 -- Cafayate to Salta --- 185 km

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Argentina &Chile --- Nov 2008 -- Day14 -- Cafayate to Salta --- 185 km

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This is the Hotel Asturias in Cafayate where we spent the night. This town is very much on the tourist route and a basket seller is taking his wares to the town square. Cafayate is in prime wine producing country as well so it's very prosperous looking.


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I was able to spend some time in the very pretty town square while some of the group visited the bank. The grass was lush and well watered, attracting various birds. Here is our friend the Greater Kiskadee again, a very common (and noisy) bird in Argentina.

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This is Tropical Kingbird.

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And this is a pair of Eared Doves, a bit like our Collared doves in the UK.

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The town square itself was very inviting and green.

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It was getting an early morning spruce up from men with palm leaf brushes.

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A very well kept town indeed reflectng the relative prosperity of the surrounding countryside although Willy informed us that most of the local vinyards are not owned by Argentinians but instead by large American wine producers.
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Judging by the buildings and the square the town must have been fairly wealthy in the past.
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The town sat rather dramatically in a valley surrounded by mountains lending impressive backdrops to the street scenes.
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One of those trees I have seen growing in Spain and the Canaries but have forgotten the name of...here gracing the square and providing beautiful dappled shade.
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Another shot of the square.
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