We spent 2 nights at this tiny house with no electricity, and incredible views all around.
It's surrounded by rocky, hilly pasture land, through which we hiked, making friends with the local equines.
We were way the heck out of town, and wanted to visit a part of the country side that wasn't accessible by bus. We walked the 11k into civilization and took a bus to Cordoba city to rent a car. From there we visited several small tourist destination towns. In one i ate my official "parrillada" for the trip - it's a taste of all the different kinds and cuts of meat. The biggest novelties were blood sausage, which was quite good; intestine with what Ale called "pate" inside - the partially digested intestinal contents! - also quite good, actually; and finally, the fatty skin flap on the throat of the cow. Yuck on that last one, though i guess it's quite a delicacy.
The sites listed in the guidebook: hotel where Einstein stayed, hike by Austrian visitor house and duck pond, huge statue of Christ overlooking town...were pretty much all a bust, but we had fun making fun of them all, and continued or with our luxury rental car tour. (it was just some basic 4-door, but renting a car was Super Luxury by my Latin America standards.)
As evening approached we started the drive through the remote area that had prompted the car rental. It was really beautiful, wide open grassland, crossed by this tiny road with no one else around. We came across this small stand of a kind of tree i'd never seen before. They looked right out of Dr. Seuss.
Suddenly the skies on one side turned dark and it started to rain. Out one window was an ominous gray sky, but on the other side the sun still shone. A beautiful double rainbow appeared.
It's surrounded by rocky, hilly pasture land, through which we hiked, making friends with the local equines.
We were way the heck out of town, and wanted to visit a part of the country side that wasn't accessible by bus. We walked the 11k into civilization and took a bus to Cordoba city to rent a car. From there we visited several small tourist destination towns. In one i ate my official "parrillada" for the trip - it's a taste of all the different kinds and cuts of meat. The biggest novelties were blood sausage, which was quite good; intestine with what Ale called "pate" inside - the partially digested intestinal contents! - also quite good, actually; and finally, the fatty skin flap on the throat of the cow. Yuck on that last one, though i guess it's quite a delicacy.
The sites listed in the guidebook: hotel where Einstein stayed, hike by Austrian visitor house and duck pond, huge statue of Christ overlooking town...were pretty much all a bust, but we had fun making fun of them all, and continued or with our luxury rental car tour. (it was just some basic 4-door, but renting a car was Super Luxury by my Latin America standards.)
As evening approached we started the drive through the remote area that had prompted the car rental. It was really beautiful, wide open grassland, crossed by this tiny road with no one else around. We came across this small stand of a kind of tree i'd never seen before. They looked right out of Dr. Seuss.
Suddenly the skies on one side turned dark and it started to rain. Out one window was an ominous gray sky, but on the other side the sun still shone. A beautiful double rainbow appeared.
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