¡Hola a todos!Anybody who is geologically inclined would love Humahuaca Gorge. I got to go on a day trip through it while I was staying in Salta and it has some amazing rock formations!
"Humahuaca Gorge" is basically a high altitude desert mountain pass, and includes several small towns, the most famous of which are Humahuaca (home to the most giant monument I have yet to see, pictured at right...the man in the middle is 9 meters tall!!)
and Purmamarca, a smaller town nestled into mountains made up of rocks of a rainbow of colors, a sampling of which you can see at left and below.
We also got to visit a historical site called "El Pucara de Tilcara," a town dating back to the 9th-15th centuries, before the Spanish came to South America. It is an important archeological site and in its prime was home to over 1500 people and a booming trading town; today some original adobe huts still exist within the protected area.
And finally, a fun fact...we passed through the Tropic of Capricorn, which was marked by the monument below. I feel quite worldly, because I've already been to the Equator and the Arctic Circle and travelled past the Tropic of Cancer, so now I just need to go to Antarctic Circle to complete my north-south travels!
I'll post one more blog about my vacation, and then it's back to school...I just finished my first week of classes for the semester and it was quite an experience! Have a good weekend!
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