So to the last day in San Juan (google map link ) and we had another tour with Fabrizio, who, as it turned out, was a bit of a wide boy. He turned up with a girl from the agency, introducing her as another guide. The truth of the matter was, as was evident ten hours later, he wanted the day to chat her up.

We went to the area known as Calangasta, which is a valley between the precordillera and the cordillera (the Andes). Basically it was a day about rock and more rock. The mountains in this area range from grey to bright pink and there are tons of stripes of different colours.

We also wandered onto the Leoncito, a dry mud flat which is 16km long and 4km wide. The winds are constant and about 40mph so they use it for land yachting (and doughnuts in the cars to judge by the tracks).

Fabrizio´s chatting up didn´t go as well as he hoped and we were treated to an hour´s frosty silence between them on the way back, not a problem as it was 11pm when we returned to the hostel after an 8am start.
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